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2732830a | 1 | This is a checklist for making Guile releases. |
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2 | It's specific to the FSF's development environment; please don't put |
3 | it in the distribution. | |
2732830a | 4 | |
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5 | Maybe we should name Guile releases after entertaining poisons: |
6 | absinthe, etc. However, the first release containing the module | |
7 | system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting | |
8 | for." | |
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ebc4e6cc | 10 | In release 1.3.4: |
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11 | - remove hook support from boot-9.scm |
12 | (only provided for backward compatibility) | |
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13 | |
14 | In release 1.4: | |
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15 | - remove names evalext.c: serial-map, |
16 | ramap.c: serial-array-copy!, serial-array-map! | |
deaceb4e | 17 | - remove module (ice-9 getopt-gnu-style) |
e7367a17 | 18 | - remove kw.h, scm_tc16_kw |
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19 | - remove genio.h |
20 | - remove deprecated function scm_newsmob. | |
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22 | Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate |
23 | modules (but still be distributed with guile-core) when we get a new | |
24 | module system. | |
25 | ||
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26 | Platforms for test builds: |
27 | SunOS (gcc and pcc) --- galapas.ai.mit.edu | |
28 | Solaris (gcc and SUN cc) --- saturn.ai.mit.edu | |
29 | NetBSD (gcc) --- repo-man.ai.mit.edu (use /home/repo/jimb) | |
30 | HP/UX (gcc, HP cc) --- nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu | |
31 | ||
422b92d2 | 32 | These gentlemen have kindly offered to do pre-release testing: |
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33 | |
34 | Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>: | |
35 | ||
36 | alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnu | |
37 | hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20 | |
38 | hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.00 | |
39 | mips-sgi-irix5.3 | |
40 | powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.0.0 | |
41 | powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu | |
42 | sparc-sun-solaris2.6 | |
43 | i686-pc-linux-gnu | |
44 | mips-sgi-irix6.3 | |
45 | sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 | |
46 | ||
47 | Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk>: | |
48 | ||
49 | alpha-dec-osf4.0e | |
50 | ||
51 | Julian Satchell <satchell@merry.dra.hmg.gb>: | |
52 | ||
53 | dec-mips-ultrix | |
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55 | |
56 | Release Checklists =================================================== | |
57 | ||
58 | There are basically two phases to doing a release: | |
59 | ||
60 | * "SPIFFING": Updating NEWS, README, INSTALL. Running tests. Getting | |
61 | people to try builds on various machines. Getting everything | |
62 | straightened up. | |
63 | ||
64 | * "PUNTING": Updating the version numbers. Tagging the sources. Asking | |
65 | the FSF to put the disty on ftp.gnu.org. Posting announcements. | |
66 | ||
67 | The "Spiffing" phase you might go through several times as you | |
68 | discover problems. The "Punting" phase you do only once. | |
69 | ||
70 | ||
71 | Spiffing checklist: | |
72 | ||
73 | * Do a `cvs update -A', to get rid of any sticky tags in your working | |
74 | directory. | |
75 | * Check for files that have changed a lot, but do not have up-to-date | |
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76 | copyright notices. This can be as simple as doing: |
77 | grep 'Copyright' * | grep -v 1999 | |
78 | and looking for files you know you've worked on a lot. | |
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79 | * Make sure NEWS, INSTALL and the docs are up to date: |
80 | + Scan the ChangeLogs for user-visible changes, marked with an asterisk | |
81 | at the left margin. | |
82 | + Update NEWS and the Texinfo documentation as appropriate. | |
83 | + Remove the user-visible markers from the log entries once they're | |
84 | documented. | |
85 | + Check for any [[incomplete]] sections of NEWS. | |
86 | + Fact-check INSTALL. | |
87 | * Make sure the downloading addressess and filenames in README are | |
340a8770 | 88 | current. (But don't bump the version number yet. We do that below.) |
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89 | * Check that the versions of aclocal, automake, autoconf, and autoheader |
90 | in your PATH match those given in README. Note that the `make | |
91 | dist' process always invokes these tools, even when all the | |
92 | generated files are up to date. | |
93 | * Rebuild all generated files in the source tree: | |
94 | + Install the .m4 files where aclocal will find them. | |
95 | + Run aclocal. | |
96 | + Run automake. | |
97 | + Run autoconf. | |
98 | + Run autoheader. | |
99 | * Verify that Guile builds and runs in your working directory. | |
100 | * Run the test suite, in guile-modules/test-suite. | |
101 | * Commit all changes to the CVS repository. | |
102 | * Build a test distribution. | |
103 | + BEFORE doing 'make dist', configure the source tree for build | |
104 | in the same tree with configuration option --with-threads. | |
105 | Make sure that readline was enabled correctly. | |
106 | If this is not done, there will be missing dependencies in two | |
107 | Makefile.in. | |
108 | + Then do 'make dist'. | |
109 | * Give the test disty to various people to try. Here's what you should do: | |
110 | + Unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH. | |
111 | + Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off their | |
112 | execute bits, or something. (Users must be able to build the | |
113 | disty without installing those tools.) | |
114 | + Configure, make, and install. | |
115 | + Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't include anything unnecessary. | |
116 | + Run the test suite on the installed version. | |
117 | + You might try the example code in the doc directory. | |
118 | ||
119 | Once you've got a disty that seems pretty solid: | |
120 | ||
121 | * Choose new interface numbers for shared libraries. | |
122 | * Update the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION and README. (There are | |
123 | many places in README that need updating!) The Guile version | |
124 | number should have one of the following forms: | |
125 | N.M - a major release | |
126 | N.M.L, where L is even - a minor release | |
127 | N.M.L, where L is odd - sources from CVS or nightly snapshot | |
128 | * Reformat the names in THANKS. | |
129 | * Do a `cvs update -A' of the whole tree, to look for any stray | |
130 | uncommitted or accidental changes. | |
131 | * Commit your changes. | |
132 | * Make one last test distribution. | |
133 | ||
134 | Punting checklist: | |
135 | ||
136 | * Add "Guile N.M released." entry to the top-level ChangeLog, and commit it. | |
137 | * Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form "release_N_M" | |
138 | or "release_N_M_L". | |
139 | * Put the distribution up for FTP somewhere, and send mail to | |
140 | ftp-upload@gnu.org, asking them to put it on prep. | |
141 | * Send an announcement message to gnu-announce@gnu.org. Put a brief | |
142 | summary of the changes in this release first, then "Obtaining | |
143 | Guile", "Thanks", "About This Distribution," and "Nightly | |
144 | Snapshots." If I remember correctly, the moderator will delay it | |
145 | until the distribution appears on ftp.gnu.org. The announcement | |
146 | text should be mostly taken from Guile's README file. | |
147 | * Notify freshmeat.net, although they're probably watching anyway. | |
148 | (They got the 1.3 release just fine.) I have no idea if | |
149 | www.bowerbird.com.au will be something anyone refers to, but Guile | |
150 | does have an entry there. | |
151 | * Tweak the version numbers in GUILE-VERSION, and README to indicate | |
152 | that the sources are a snapshot again. Snapshots should have | |
153 | version numbers of the form "N.M.L", where L is odd. | |
154 | * Start a new section of the NEWS file. | |
155 | * Start a new THANKS file. | |
156 | * Send mail to majordomo-owner@cygnus.com updating the message you | |
157 | get when you ask majordomo for "info guile". |