[infomap-nlp-users] Releasing new verions: how to get around

[Dominic W. <dwi...@cs...>]

Dear All,

In reponse to a problem Beate had earlier with making new releases.

The cvs tag, autoconf, automake, make dist process that's supposed to
generate new distibutions automatically from the cvs information didn't
work for me either.

Instead I've started with the 2nd step of the process, chaning the
configure file (in the base directory) so that the version tags are up to
date. (I did this manually just editing configure in emacs and replacing
0.8.3 with 0.8.4, 0.8.4 with 0.8.5, etc.)

Running "configure" and then "make dist" from here produces the correct
tarball.

You can then navigate through the tortuous sourceforge documentation from
the project admin page, got to "File Releases", upload the new tarball via
anaonymous ftp to "upload.sourceforge.net" (remember to set the type to
"bin", I uploaded garbage the first time I tried yesterday!), fill in the
release notes forms, hope that doing these steps in a different order
doesn't erase the notes you've already typed in, and hope for the best.

If anyone who is more SourceForge savvy can give me tips to make this
process better(I'm still not sure I'm doing things right), pleae chime in.

Best wishes,
Dominic