admin/README

   1 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
   2   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
   4
   5
   6                          The admin directory
   7
   8 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
   9 and maintaining Emacs.  These files are not part of Emacs releases
  10 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
  11 what you do when using them.
  12
  13
  14 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
  15
  16 ** FOR-RELEASE
  17
  18 Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
  19
  20 ** make-tarball.txt
  21
  22 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
  23
  24 ** admin.el
  25
  26 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
  27
  28 ** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
  29
  30 Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
  31
  32
  33 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
  34
  35 ** build-configs
  36
  37 Build Emacs in various configurations.
  38
  39 ** make-emacs
  40
  41 Build Emacs in various ways.
  42
  43 ** quick-install-emacs
  44
  45 Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
  46
  47 ** alloc-color.c
  48
  49 A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X.  Can
  50 be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
  51
  52 ** check-doc-strings
  53
  54 Check doc strings against documentation.
  55
  56 ** cus-test.el
  57
  58 Tests for custom types and load problems.
  59
  60 ** diff-tar-files
  61
  62 Show files added/removed between two tar files.
  63
  64 ** revdiff
  65
  66 Get CVS diffs of files.
  67
  68
  69 \f
  70 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  71
  72 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  73 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  74 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
  75 any later version.
  76
  77 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  78 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  79 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  80 GNU General Public License for more details.
  81
  82 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  83 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  84 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  85 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  86 \f
  87 Local variables:
  88 mode: outline
  89 paragraph-separate: "[  \f]*$"
  90 end:
  91
  92 Brief description of sub-directories:
  93
  94 charsets                scripts for generating charset map files
  95                         in ../etc/charsets
  96 unidata                 scripts for generating character property files
  97                         in ../lisp/international
  98
  99 # arch-tag: 812b9461-bc0a-46a7-925e-24bd41118463