libtiff/HOWTO-RELEASE

HOWTO-RELEASE: 
Notes on releasing.  <mike@bangstate.com> 

1. Commit any unsaved changes. 

2. "make clean"

3. Create html/vX.X.html.  Take ChangeLog entries and html-ify in there. 
   Easist thing to do is take html/vX.(X-1).html and use it as a template. 

4. Add any new files that have been created that should be part 
   of the distrubituion (like the html file in step 2), to 
   TIFFFILES in Makefile.in

5. Make sure tif_dir.c in lzw-compression-kit is in sync with the 
   main tree. 

6. Increment version in file "VERSION" 

8. sh configure; make; make install (to test). 

9. make release -- this will update "RELEASE-DATE" in the top level dir,
   and create the .tar.gz and .zip archives one directory above.

10. make distclean

11. cvs commit

12. ftp ftp.onshore.com; 
    cd /home/ftp/pub/libtiff
    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.zip .
    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.tar.gz .

13. ftp ftp.libtiff.org
    lcd html
    mput *.html
    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.zip .
    put ../tiff-vn-n-n.tar.gz .

13. Commit any changes in libtiff-lzw-compression-kit. 

    Update VERSION in Makefile. 

    make release

    ftp to both sites. 

14. Announce to list, tiff@olympiakos.com


NOTES: Check that tiffvers.h is getting updated with the date each release.
       Remove step 5, no longer needed.