Release Reminders ================= * Increment shared library version information as needed (libqpdf/build.mk) * Update release notes in manual -- look at diffs and ChangeLog * Add a release entry to ChangeLog * Make sure version numbers are consistent in the following locations: configure.ac qpdf.spec libqpdf/QPDF.cc manual/qpdf-manual.xml make_dist verifies this consistency. * Update release date in manual/qpdf-manual.xml * Each year, update copyright notices. Just search for Copyright. Last updated: 2010. * To construct a source distribution from a pristine checkout, make_dist does the following: ./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-doc-maintenance make build_manual make distclean * To create a source release, do an export from the version control system to a directory called qpdf-version. From the parent of that directory, run make_dist with the directory as an argument. Remember to have fop in your path. For internally testing releases, you can run make_dist with the --no-tests option. * To create a source release of external libs, do an export from the version control system into a directory called qpdf-external-libs and just make a zip file of the result called qpdf-external-libs-src.zip. See the README.txt file there for information on creating binary external libs releases. * To create Windows binary releases, extract the qpdf source distribution in Windows (MSYS + MINGW, MSVC). From the extracted directory, extract the binary distribution of the external libraries. Run ./make_windows_releases from there. You will need to have zip in your path. * Remember to copy README-what-to-download.txt separately onto the download area and make it the default for Windows platforms. * Remember to update documentation in the "files" subdirectory of the website on sourceforge.net. * Create a tag in the version control system, and make backups of the actual releases. * When releasing on source forge, external-libs distributions go in external-libs/yyyymmdd, and qpdf distributions go in qpdf/vvv General Build Stuff =================== QPDF uses autoconf and libtool but does not use automake. The only files distributed with the qpdf source distribution that are not controlled are "configure", "libqpdf/qpdf/qpdf-config.h.in", "aclocal.m4", and some documentation. See above for the steps required to prepare a source distribution. A small handful of additional files have been taken from autotools programs. These should probably be updated from time to time. * config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh, and the m4 directory: these were created by running libtoolize -c. To update, run libtoolize -f -c or remove the files and rerun libtoolize. * Other files copied as indicated: cp /usr/share/automake-1.11/install-sh . cp /usr/share/automake-1.11/mkinstalldirs . The entire contents of the m4 directory came from libtool.m4. If we had some additional local parts, we could also add those to the m4 directory. In order for this to work, it is necessary to run "aclocal -I m4" before running autoheader and autoconf. If building or editing documentation, configure with --enable-doc-maintenance. This will ensure that all tools or files required to validate and build documentation are available. If you want to run make maintainer-clean or make distclean and you haven't run ./configure, you can pass CLEAN=1 to make on the command line to prevent it from complaining about configure not having been run.