Release HOWTO
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- * Have an ECP guy send a mail to ingesys at cti dot ecp dot fr warning them of
- the forecoming traffic (should ideally be done at least a few hours before release)
-
* Tests : compilation, regression tests ...
* Changes on the svn repository
* Tarballs (Use a clean tree !!!)
- Use 'make distcheck' to make sure all files are exported
- correctly (currently fails)
- - make the VLC tar.gz and tar.bz2 files with `make dist'.
+ correctly
- copy the tar.gz and tar.bz2 file on ftp.videolan.org in
- /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/vlc/vlc-X.X.X/
+ /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-X.X.X/
- generate md5 hashes of these files
* Contribs
* BeOS Packages
Information on building: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/beos-compile.html
Build in the "buildbeos" chroot on altair.
- # add the .zip files to /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/vlc/vlc-X.X.X/beos/
+ # add the .zip files to /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-X.X.X/beos/
* Win32 Packages
make the packages using the nightly builds configure/options/...
- add the .zip and .exe files to /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/vlc/vlc-X.X.X/win32/
+ don't forget to test the installer and uninstaller (the first 0.8.4 uninstaller was broken ...
+ kind of suxxs)
+ add the .zip and .exe files to /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-X.X.X/win32/
* OS X packages
At the moment, only FK can do them (so they can be compatible with OS X 10.2)
or
svn mv svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/branches/X.X.X svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/tag/X.X.X
+ * Move /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-X.X.X to /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/vlc/X.X.X
+ - Update the "latest" symlink
+
* Update the website
- edit the /index.php /vlc/*.php pages
- add a news item to news.msg