admin/README

   1 Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
   3
   4
   5                          The admin directory
   6
   7 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
   8 and maintaining Emacs.  These files are not part of Emacs releases
   9 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
  10 what you do when using them.
  11
  12
  13 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
  14
  15 ** FOR-RELEASE
  16
  17 Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
  18
  19 ** make-tarball.txt
  20
  21 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, announcements, etc.
  22
  23 ** admin.el
  24
  25 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
  26
  27 ** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
  28
  29 Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
  30
  31
  32 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
  33
  34 ** build-configs
  35
  36 Build Emacs in various configurations.
  37
  38 ** make-emacs
  39
  40 Build Emacs in various ways.
  41
  42 ** quick-install-emacs
  43
  44 Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
  45
  46 ** alloc-colors.c
  47
  48 A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X.  Can
  49 be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
  50
  51 ** check-doc-strings
  52
  53 Check doc strings against documentation.
  54
  55 ** cus-test.el
  56
  57 Tests for custom types and load problems.
  58
  59 ** diff-tar-files
  60
  61 Show files added/removed between two tar files.
  62
  63
  64 Brief description of sub-directories:
  65
  66 charsets                scripts for generating charset map files
  67                         in ../etc/charsets
  68 unidata                 scripts for generating character property files
  69                         in ../lisp/international
  70
  71 \f
  72 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  73
  74 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  75 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  76 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  77 (at your option) any later version.
  78
  79 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  80 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  81 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  82 GNU General Public License for more details.
  83
  84 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  85 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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