[Vim-latex-devel] How to make releases/update the web-page etc.

[Srinath A. <sr...@ee...>]

Hey Mikolaj (and everyone else who might be interested),

Please use the method described below for updating the web-page etc. The
latest makefile in the vimfiles/doc module has three additional targets:

release:
    For making temporary dated releases of the form
    latexSuite20030618.zip etc. This target runs the executable
    /home/groups/v/vi/vim-latex/bin/upload, which does the following:

    1. updates a checked out copy of latex-suite kept in
       vim-latex/testing/vimfiles to the latest cvs revision.
    2. creates archives of the form latexSuite20030617.[zip/tar.gz]
    3. ... and moves them to the download area of the vim-latex htdocs/
       directory.
    4. It then updates htdocs/timestamp.inc with the date at which the
       archives were created so that the download section points to the
       latest dated release.

updoc:
    For updating the documentation to the latest cvs. This target
    updates a copy of the ~/vimfiles/doc module kept in
    /home/groups/v/vi/vim-latex/htdocs/documentation/ to the latest cvs
    and then creates latex-suite.html and the chunked html files in
    documentation/latex-suite/*.html

uphtdocs: for updating the htdocs directory (the web-page) with the
    latest cvs. Will also update the package and template list. Will
    also update the ChangeLog which is linked from the download page.

I have tried to setup the webpage in such a way that the entire
maintainence can be done via make remotely. Please do it this way. For
example, when making changes to the web-page, make changes in a locally
checked out copy and do "make uphtdocs". If you make some changes to the
user manual, do "make updoc". If you wish to make a dated release to fix
a temporary bug-fix etc, do "make release".

Also note that whenever you make a change to latex-suite.xml, you need
to also change latex-suite.txt simultaneously using db2vim and then
commit them both at the same time. I wrote an email earlier about how to
use db2vim. Hope it is working for you...

I have also changed the permissions for all files in the htdocs/
directory to ug+w. which means we should both be able to write to it.
However, I saw that some of the files are only writable by you. Please
do
$ chmod -R ug+w *
in the htdocs/ directory.

Srinath