Re: [sdcc-devel] sdcc on Mac OS X

[Stephen W. <st...@ic...>]

sa...@wi... said:
> Making a new release is a lot of work, building, packaging, updating
> the WebPages ....

I second this sentiment. I too have a large project that I work on,
and just the technicalities of making a release -- tagging the source,
making a clean distribution tarball, test compilations of that tarball,
making RPMS (Linux) and installers (Windows) and updating web pages --
takes a full working day. And that is not everything, as I only make
precompiled RPMS and Windows installers. Others make the .debs (Linux),
the ports (FreeBSD, netbst) etc.

This busy day comes with a week or so of preparation where version
numbers are updated in the source, code is frozen, and extra regression
testing is done. I bury a lot of that in a "release candidate" snapshot.
I try to get all the porters to compile the last snapshot on their
target *before* I make the release, so that the release can include
fixes required to support the target.

-- 
Steve Williams                "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
steve at icarus.com           But I have promises to keep,
steve at picturel.com         and lines to code before I sleep,
http://www.picturel.com       And lines to code before I sleep."

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