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build: drop releaseclean target The target is supposed to remove files that are created during the XML build process without removing the generated documentation. Unfortunately, it does not work as expected and is not worth the extra complication.
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1 How to make an MPlayer release
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2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3
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4 preparations:
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5 - Announce the intent to create a release branch on mailing lists and IRC.
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6 - Ask translators to get their languages synchronized.
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7 - Update the Changelog.
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8 - Identify regressions or other serious issues, fix or revert (on the branch)
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9 as needed so the release is of good quality.
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10 - Find a codename for the release
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12 create the release tree:
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13 - tag Subversion with release name
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14 - Add a VERSION file with the release version to the root of the source tree.
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15 - update release.sh script with version number
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16 ***the following steps are done automatically by release.sh script***
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17 - checkout the mplayer src tree
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18 - check out FFmpeg subdirs
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19 - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files
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21 - build the HTML docs from XML sources, then clean up
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23 release the tree:
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24 cd ..
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25 mv main MPlayer-0.90rc5
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26 tar -cf MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar MPlayer-0.90rc5
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27 bzip2 -9 MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar
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28 ***end of part done by release.sh**
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30 test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run)
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31 - compilers: gcc 4.x, gcc 3.x, gcc 2.95, MinGW, Cygwin
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32 - architectures: PPC, AMD64, x86 with MMX[2], SSE[2], 3DNow
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33 - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X
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35 copy to FTP:
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36 cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/
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37 cp Changelog-0.90rc5 and update Changelog symlink
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38 md5sum MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 > MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2.md5
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40 Write a news entry for the release, update the links in dload.html. Test it,
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41 sometimes links are broken. Do not forget the translations.
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43 Send the release notes as a mail to the mplayer-announce mailing list.
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45 Add the new release version to bugzilla page.
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47 Update release version in #mplayer and #mplayerdev topics.
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49 Update project page on Freshmeat
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51 Done.