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1HOWTO-RELEASE:
2Notes on releasing.
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41. Commit any unsaved changes.
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62. "make clean"
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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.
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113.5. Update html/index.html to refer to this new page as the current release.
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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
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175. Increment version in file "VERSION"
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196. Update the date in libtiff/tiffvers.h.
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217. sh configure; make; make install (to test).
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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.
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269. make distclean
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2810. cvs commit
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3011. cvs tag 3_5_7 (or the appropriate name for the release)
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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
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3613. Announce to list, [email protected]
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3814. Update libtiff page on freshmeat with new version announcement.
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