From 433400df4d89afb025624a9a0aa67cb69a80a7c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Zeitlin Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:12:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix typo; wrap lines; add some clarifications git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@59727 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/tech/tn0022.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt index 5d0dad2ac6..ffb995940a 100644 --- a/docs/tech/tn0022.txt +++ b/docs/tech/tn0022.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - Working with the the wxWidgets release system - ===================================== + Working with the wxWidgets release system + ========================================= Process Overview: - run build/tools/create-archive.py --compression=all /path/to/output/dir @@ -8,13 +8,24 @@ Process Overview: - promote release on software download sites -Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases. The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must be run either on Unix or using Cygwin on Windows. To generate a release, simply run the following command: +Currently our release system uses a Python 2.x script to generate releases. +The script requires Unix utilities such as tar, zip and unix2dos and thus must +be run either on Unix or using Cygwin on Windows. To generate a release, simply +run the following command: build/tools/create-archive.py --compression=all /path/to/output/dir -This will produce zip, gzip and bzip archives of the tree. +This will produce zip, gzip and bzip archives of the tree (without +"compression" argument only .gz is made). Note that this commands produces huge +amounts of output so redirecting it to a file is recommended. -To add a prefix to the release, such as RC1, the SVN revision, or a date, just pass --postfix="postfix" to the script. More info on the options and their possible values can be found by calling `create-archive.py --help`. +To add a prefix to the release, such as RC1, the SVN revision, or a date, just +pass --postfix="postfix" to the script. More info on the options and their +possible values can be found by calling `create-archive.py --help`. -IMPORTANT NOTE: You *must* run this script from a clean source tree, that is, with no junk files in it or modifications. This is because the release should be a pristine copy of the tree as of the time of release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need to be in the release, commit them first. +IMPORTANT NOTE: You *must* run this script from a clean source tree, that is, + with no junk files in it or modifications. This is because the + release should be a pristine copy of the tree as of the time of + release. If you have legitimate modifications in the tree that need + to be in the release, commit them first.