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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 343-356) - Update from CVS - Update for ERC 5.1.3. - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 113-115) - Merge from emacs--devo--0 - Update from CVS Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--unicode--0--patch-90
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:42:56 +0000
parents 5c77b525b4ad 8852a07538af
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1 The admin directory
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1 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing 3 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
2 and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases 4 and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
3 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know 5 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
4 what you do when using them. 6 what you do when using them.
5 7
6 Brief description of scripts found here:
7 8
8 admin.el utilities for setting version numbers and alike 9 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
9 alloc-color.c a utility program that allocates a given number of 10
10 colors on X. Can be used to debug Emacs with 11 ** FOR-RELEASE
11 dense colormaps (PseudoColor). 12
12 build-configs build Emacs in various configurations 13 Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
13 check-doc-strings check doc strings against documentation 14
14 cus-test.el tests for custom types and load problems 15 ** make-tarball.txt
15 diff-tar-files show files added/removed between two tar files 16
16 make-emacs build Emacs in various ways 17 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
17 make-tarball.txt instructions to create pretest or release tarballs 18
18 quick-install-emacs install emacs quickly (`incrementally') 19 ** admin.el
19 revdiff get CVS diffs of files 20
21 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
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23 ** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
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25 Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
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28 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
29
30 ** build-configs
31
32 Build Emacs in various configurations.
33
34 ** make-emacs
35
36 Build Emacs in various ways.
37
38 ** quick-install-emacs
39
40 Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
41
42 ** alloc-color.c
43
44 A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X. Can
45 be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
46
47 ** check-doc-strings
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49 Check doc strings against documentation.
50
51 ** cus-test.el
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53 Tests for custom types and load problems.
54
55 ** diff-tar-files
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57 Show files added/removed between two tar files.
58
59 ** revdiff
60
61 Get CVS diffs of files.
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66 Local variables:
67 mode: outline
68 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
69 end:
20 70
21 Brief description of sub-directories: 71 Brief description of sub-directories:
22 72
23 charsets scripts for generating charset map files 73 charsets scripts for generating charset map files
24 in ../etc/charsets 74 in ../etc/charsets