aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/docs/INTERNALS
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-04-17 16:34:25 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-04-17 16:34:25 +0200
commitc91c48723aa3cc9743e4d413ee65fb875deea700 (patch)
treeeeb59401ab70e97566d58267248bb678710473a9 /docs/INTERNALS
parentb40c8f9249af65dfd760f5ca732e19054fc74a79 (diff)
INTERNALS: clean up
Clarified the release procedure
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/INTERNALS')
-rw-r--r--docs/INTERNALS46
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS b/docs/INTERNALS
index 5b12639ee..c7308671c 100644
--- a/docs/INTERNALS
+++ b/docs/INTERNALS
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Portability
libssh2 0.16
c-ares 1.6.0
libidn 0.4.1
- *yassl 1.4.0 (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-02/0093.html)
+ cyassl 1.4.0
openldap 2.0
MIT krb5 lib 1.2.4
qsossl V5R2M0
@@ -256,10 +256,10 @@ Library
http_chunks.c contains functions that understands HTTP 1.1 chunked transfer
encoding.
- An interesting detail with the HTTP(S) request, is the Curl_add_buffer() series of
- functions we use. They append data to one single buffer, and when the
- building is done the entire request is sent off in one single write. This is
- done this way to overcome problems with flawed firewalls and lame servers.
+ An interesting detail with the HTTP(S) request, is the Curl_add_buffer()
+ series of functions we use. They append data to one single buffer, and when
+ the building is done the entire request is sent off in one single write. This
+ is done this way to overcome problems with flawed firewalls and lame servers.
FTP
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Library
LDAP
- Everything LDAP is in lib/ldap.c.
+ Everything LDAP is in lib/ldap.c and lib/openldap.c
GENERAL
@@ -463,9 +463,9 @@ Memory Debugging
Test Suite
==========
- Since November 2000, a test suite has evolved. It is placed in its own
- subdirectory directly off the root in the curl archive tree, and it contains
- a bunch of scripts and a lot of test case data.
+ The test suite is placed in its own subdirectory directly off the root in the
+ curl archive tree, and it contains a bunch of scripts and a lot of test case
+ data.
The main test script is runtests.pl that will invoke test servers like
httpserver.pl and ftpserver.pl before all the test cases are performed. The
@@ -481,13 +481,25 @@ Building Releases
=================
There's no magic to this. When you consider everything stable enough to be
- released, run the 'maketgz' script (using 'make distcheck' will give you a
- pretty good view on the status of the current sources). maketgz prompts for
- version number of the client and the library before it creates a release
- archive. maketgz uses 'make dist' for the actual archive building, why you
- need to fill in the Makefile.am files properly for which files that should
- be included in the release archives.
-
- NOTE: you need to have curl checked out from git to be able to do a proper
+ released, do this:
+
+ 1. Tag the source code accordingly.
+
+ 2. run the 'maketgz' script (using 'make distcheck' will give you a pretty
+ good view on the status of the current sources). maketgz requires a
+ version number and creates the release archive. maketgz uses 'make dist'
+ for the actual archive building, why you need to fill in the Makefile.am
+ files properly for which files that should be included in the release
+ archives.
+
+ 3. When that's complete, sign the output files.
+
+ 4. Upload
+
+ 5. Update web site and changelog on site
+
+ 6. Send announcement to the mailing lists
+
+ NOTE: you must have curl checked out from git to be able to do a proper
release build. The release tarballs do not have everything setup in order to
do releases properly.