how to make a release

I'm absent-minded and use this for making general a release, posting announcements, and updating site documentation. It's possible there's information for other purposes such as for packages. However your milage may vary.

Update NEWS.remake REMAKE_VERSION=1.2

• Change configure.ac release name. E.g.

  define(_MAKE_VERSION_, 4.3)
                         ^^^^ Possibly this

  AC_INIT([remake],[_MAKE_VERSION_+dbg-1.6],[https://github.com/rocky/remake/issues])
                                       ^^^ and this

  export REMAKE_VERSION="4.3+dbg-1.6"

• Let people know of a pending release, e.g. [email protected]; no major changes before release, please

• test on lots of platforms; panix, login.opencsw, cygwin

• Go over Changelog and add NEWS-remake.md. Update date of release.

• Make sure sources are current and checked in: git pull git commit -m"Get ready for release $REMAKE_VERSION" . git push

• make distcheck should work For now, remove `.o's afterwards'

• recreate the documentation so we can put it on the public website: (In theory be could/should be done after the release but if there's a problem we want to know about it beforehand)

  cd doc remake remake.html remake.dvi

• Add release to github https://github.com/rocky/remake/releases/new git tag release-remake-$REMAKE_VERSION git push --tags

• "make distcheck" one more time

• Get onto sourceforge: Use the GUI login, develop, Project Amin, File Manager

• copy remake and remake manual to web page: cd ../remake/doc && make remake.html ??? sftp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_sourceforge rockyb,[email protected] also works cd htdocs/remake put -R remake.html

• Bump version in configure.ac and add "dev". See place above in removal.