Re: Next pretest, and branching plans

[Jason Rumney]

On 24/02/2010 02:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 6. Make sure 7z.exe is in your PATH, or modify admin/nt/makedist.bat to
> > use your preferred zip utility (I found that InfoZip zip.exe does not
> > work well, which is why I changed to use 7z.exe)
> >      
> What didn't work well with zip.exe
>    

rem Info-ZIP zip seems to be broken on Windows.
rem It always writes to zip.zip and treats the zipfile argument as one
rem of the files to go in it.
rem zip -9 -r %2-bin-i386 emacs-%1/BUGS emacs-%1/COPYING emacs-%1/README 
emacs-%1/README.W32 emacs-%1/INSTALL emacs-%1/bin emacs-%1/etc emacs-%1/info 
emacs-%1/lisp emacs-%1/leim -x emacs.mdp *.pdb *.opt *~ CVS


> > 8. Test the resulting zip files.
> >      
> What tests did you usually run?
>    
Test that the unpacked Emacs runs, along with the other exes in the bin 
directory, and check that the number of files in the zip file is in the 
same ballpark as the previous version.


> It also requires to register a GPG signature, doesn't it?
>    

Yes, your public key needs to be in the GNU keyring to upload to the FTP 
server.