Release Procedures

Jmol/JSmol Development

• Getting Involved in J(S)mol evolution
• Release Procedures
• Important! Use the Jmol Coding Style
• Developing J(S)mol with Eclipse
• Internationalisation (status)
• ProgrammeerZomer / SummerOfCode
• MultiUser Jmol
• Developer mailing list (mirror)

Accessing a Release

You can browse the latest source code online or anonymously checkout the project contained in the Subversion (SVN) repository.

To checkout the source code use the following command:

 svn co https://jmol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jmol/trunk/Jmol

This will check out to the Jmol subdirectory on your system.

You can update the source code from withing your Jmol sandbox by saying:

 svn update 

Release build

svn update
ant spotless dist
ant test
update version number in build.xml
update version number in org/jmol/viewer/JmolConstants.java
svn commit -m "prerelease 10.3.1"
svn copy https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jmol/trunk \
   https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jmol/tags/pre10.3.1 -m "prerelease 10.3.1"
ant spotless dist
cd build/dist
ls
lftp upload.sourceforge.net
cd incoming
mput jmol-10.3.1-binary.*

If you use another ftp client then login with anonymous/emailaddr and put ftp into 'bin' mode to ensure clean transfer of binary files.

To release software to sourceforge

From http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmol :

• Admin
• File Releases
• in File Release Packages:
  • Edit Releases in order to look at previous release name conventions
  • Add Release - prerelease 10.3.1
  • Type in name
  • Create Release
• Refresh your browser
• Check jmol-10.3.1-binary.tar.gz and jmol-10.3.1.binary.zip
• Add Files and/or Refresh View
• Scroll down to Step 3: Edit files in this release
• Step 3: Processor: Platform-independent File Type: .gz Update/Refresh
• Step 3: Processor: Platform-independent File Type: .zip -> Update/Refresh
• Step 4: Email release notes ... check and send
• At the top of the page click on 'Files'
• If you want, edit older releases and change them from Active to Hidden

Inform Jmol users

svn log https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jmol/trunk | less

• Send out a message to jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
• Update the Change Log page.

Miguel 2006 04 04

Contributors

Pimpim, NicolasVervelle, Hansonr, Miguel