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1Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
2 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end of the file for license conditions.
4
5
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6 The admin directory
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8This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
9and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
10because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
11what you do when using them.
12
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14* Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
15
16** FOR-RELEASE
17
18Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
19
20** make-tarball.txt
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22Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
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24** admin.el
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26Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
27
28** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
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30Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
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32
33* Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
34
35** build-configs
36
37Build Emacs in various configurations.
38
39** make-emacs
40
41Build Emacs in various ways.
42
43** quick-install-emacs
44
45Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
46
0bcb96cd 47** alloc-colors.c
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49A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X. Can
50be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
51
52** check-doc-strings
53
54Check doc strings against documentation.
55
56** cus-test.el
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58Tests for custom types and load problems.
59
60** diff-tar-files
61
62Show files added/removed between two tar files.
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65Brief description of sub-directories:
66
67charsets scripts for generating charset map files
68 in ../etc/charsets
69unidata scripts for generating character property files
70 in ../lisp/international
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73This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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9ad5de0c 75GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
2f969cd4 76it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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77the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
78(at your option) any later version.
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80GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
81but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
82MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
83GNU General Public License for more details.
84
85You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
9ad5de0c 86along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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87\f
88Local variables:
89mode: outline
90paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
91end:
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