[xiphos-devel] getting a new release out

[Greg Hellings]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:50 PM Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

> It's been over 2 years since 4.1.0. Obviously, that's way too long. This
> is my fault, of course.
>
> In this time, we've gotten a new build system, and there's been a slew of
> bug fixes. Nothing new and huge, architecturally speaking, the way that
> (say) av11n kicked us up to v4, for example. So what needs to go out is
> 4.1.1. I have thoughts about bigger things that need to be done afterward
> (notably, the editor; and Abbrev needs a serious re-work) that might lead
> to enough change to justify calling it 4.2.
>
> From today's state of things, what needs to be done before we can put out
> 4.1.1?
>
> - For any Xiphos release prior to the next Sword release, ours needs to
> include the intro material revert .diff.
>

If you can mutter the proper svn command to me or post the actual diff file
here, I can get that added to both MinGW and native Fedora packages. Other
packagers might appreciate it, too

- There may be some peculiar machinations around Windows build due to that
> diff, the current state of other mingw packages (BibleSync needs to be
> built with Xiphos right now), and maybe Greg knows of other things.
>

I know of thing else regarding Windows that *needs* to happen

- I need to understand how the version stamp thing happens, now that
> Caleb's source_version.txt is in play. We simply tag just prior to doing
> github release?
>

I'm working on fully automating that, so all you have to do is tag the
commit in the repo and it will do all the releasing for you. Look for a PR
in the next few days to handle that. Once that's done a release will be as
simple as:

git tag v4.1.1
git push --tag

--Greg

>
> Anything else? Any reason we couldn't let 4.1.1 out the door before week's
> end?
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