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#! /bin/bash

## Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
##   Free Software Foundation, Inc.

## Author: Francesco Potorti` <[e-mail]>

## This file is part of GNU Emacs.

## GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.

## GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.

## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


### Code:

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
    echo "usage: $0 <old version number> <new version number>" >&2
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f INSTALL -o ! -f configure -o ! -d lib-src ]; then
    echo "this script should be run in the emacs root directory" >&2
    exit 2
fi

OLD=$1
NEW=$2
outfile=emacs-$NEW.announce
oldtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $OLD|tr . _)
newtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $NEW|tr . _)

if [ -f $outfile ]; then
    echo "$outfile exists"
    echo -n "interrupt to abort, ENTER to overwrite "; read answer
fi

echo -n "tag name for OLD emacs version $OLD [$oldtag]: "; read answer
if [ "$answer" ]; then oldtag=$answer; fi

echo -n "tag name for NEW emacs version $NEW [$newtag]: "; read answer
if [ "$answer" ]; then newtag=$answer; fi

exec > $outfile

cat <<EOF

There is a new pretest available in

  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-$NEW.tar.gz>

Please report results from compiling and running the pretest to
<[e-mail]>.  Your feedback is necessary for us
to know on which platforms the pretest has been tried.

If you have the tars from the previous pretest, and you have the
\`xdelta' utility, you can instead download the much smaller

  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-$OLD-$NEW.xdelta>

You can use a command like

  $ xdelta patch XDELTA PREVIOUS-TAR CURRENT-TAR

to generate the new tar from the old one, where XDELTA is the xdelta
file you downloaded, PREVIOUS-TAR is the tar file from the previous
pretest, and CURRENT-TAR is the name of the tar file you downloaded.

Information about xdelta can be found on the GNU ftp site, in
/non-gnu/xdelta.README.

Changes since $OLD

EOF

make-changelog-diff $oldtag $newtag

echo " announcement created in $outfile" >&2

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