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| author | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2004-05-11 08:19:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> | 2004-05-11 08:19:47 +0000 |
| commit | 2f7b4a3ad7a0760af023d350685d1acfdc528d2c (patch) | |
| tree | 8599845ce8a00f21466faf6f1f0e2b0ee6be3e4c /RELEASING | |
| parent | b743ed0342d0e6696df159e9739781fbcb1fac33 (diff) | |
Increment CAIRO_VERSION to 0.1.23.
Added notes for snapshot 0.1.23.
Add reminder to mention incompatible API changes in NEWS. Re-order steps to avoid clobbering pre-existing tar files.
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASING')
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASING | 28 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -13,7 +13,15 @@ snapshots. version numbers in order to get access to a specific set of features. -2) Verify that the code passes "make distcheck" +2) Increment CAIRO_VERSION in configure.in + + Right now, in its pre-release form, we are incrementing + CAIRO_VERSION for each snapshot but we are not changing the + libtool shared library version information. Until now, we've + only incremented the sub-minor version. We'll invent rules for + incrementing major and minor numbers when the time is right. + +3) Verify that the code passes "make distcheck" Running "make distcheck" should result in no warnings or errors and end with a message of the form: @@ -25,19 +33,13 @@ snapshots. (But the tar file isn't actually ready yet, as we still have some more steps to follow). -3) Fill out an entry in the NEWS file +4) Fill out an entry in the NEWS file Sift through the information in ChangeLog since the last snapshot. Summarize major changes briefly in a style similar - to other entries in NEWS. - -4) Increment CAIRO_VERSION in configure.in - - Right now, in its pre-release form, we are incrementing - CAIRO_VERSION for each snapshot but we are not changing the - libtool shared library version information. Until now, we've - only incremented the sub-minor version. We'll invent rules for - incrementing major and minor numbers when the time is right. + to other entries in NEWS. Take special care to note any + incompatible changes in the API. These should be easy to find + by looking for cairo.h in the ChangeLog. 5) Commit the changes to NEWS and configure.in @@ -45,8 +47,8 @@ snapshots. other commit. It's especially important to mention the new version number in the ChangeLog. -6) Run "make distcheck" to generate the final tar file with the - correct version number. +6) Run "make distcheck" to generate the final tar file including the + changes to NEWS and ChangeLog. 7) Copy the resulting tar file to the cairo snapshots distribution directory: |