1HOWTO-RELEASE: 2Notes on releasing. 3 41. Commit any unsaved changes. 5 62. "make clean" 7 83. Create html/vX.X.html. Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there. 9 Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template. 10 113.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release. 12 134. Add any new files that have been created that should be part 14 of the distribution (like the html file in step 2), to 15 TIFFFILES in Makefile.in 16 175. Increment version in file "VERSION" 18 196. Update the date in libtiff/tiffvers.h. 20 217. sh configure; make; make install (to test). 22 238. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" in the top level dir, 24 and create the .tar.gz and .zip archives one directory above. 25 269. make distclean 27 2810. cvs commit 29 3011. cvs tag 3_5_7 (or the appropriate name for the release) 31 3212. Copy to ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site. 33 scp tiff-*.tar.gz remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff 34 scp tiff-*.zip remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/libtiff 35 3613. Announce to list, [email protected] 37 3814. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement. 39 40 41