Make releases

From Ted wiki

When a new version of ted is ready to release, three packages have to be made. A windows installer, a mac disk image and one zip archive.

Contents 1 Make installers 1.1 Windows installer 1.2 Mac DMG 1.3 Zip archive 2 Go public

Make installers

First, create a new ted.jar with the correct version set in the code. Make a new folder for this release in the releases folder.

Windows installer

Use witem installer for java.

• Open the old definition for ted (some *.w4j file)
• Replace ted.jar in the filelist with the new jar
• Replace readme.txt and changelog.txt with the new files
• Update the version and the product code in the general settings
• Generate the installer, rename it tedv*.exe.
• Test the install process.
• Move the tedv*.exe into the releases folder.

Mac DMG

• First update the ted.app with new Jar and eventual new resources that are needed in the Java folder.
• Then update the plist with the new version of the app and update the classpaths when necessary.
• Check if this app works.

• Update the DMG file using DMG packager
  • Use tedRW.dmg in the releases folder
  • Activate it and put the new app in it
  • Package and compress DMG, name it tedv*.dmg, put it in the releases folder.
    • Open RW dmg, activate "preserve finder layout" and generate the dmg

Zip archive

• Take the old zip file and extract it somewhere
• Add the new files. Make sure you don't copy any version information from subversion into the zip file
• Compress the contents of the "runnable ted" folder into a zipfile named tedv*.zip. Include all OS folders so the zip file works on all operating systems.
• Extract the zip somewhere and check if ted runs

• = the version number of the new release, without the dot. So for ted 0.90 *=090

Go public

• Make a new release on sourceforge, name it "ted *.*" and add the three release files to it.
• Update Release notes.
• Update the download page and the download javascript on ted.nu
• Update screenshots on main page
• Update screenshots and documentation on the wiki
• Post an announcement on the blog
• Update version.txt on ted.sourceforge.nu
• Update ted.xml on ted.nu with the new version info (this is read by lots of software websites) using apimac pad editor
• Update ted's listing on Softpedia, osx.iusethis and Download.com