-- 
-- RELEASE
-- 
-- release instructions.
-- 
-- Copyright (C) 2004 Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org>
-- 
-- This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-- any later version.
-- 
-- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-- GNU General Public License for more details.
-- 
-- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-- along with this package; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-- the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  
--

Distribution process:
---------------------

* Ensure the release is complete.
  - Check the TODO, NEWS and BUGS files for pending or completed tasks.
  - Make sure INSTALL, THANKS and README files are up to date.

* Test build and packaging.
  - Maintainance currently requires the following software packages:
     + Autoconf version 2.57 (at least)
     + GNU automake 1.7.0 (at least)
     + flex 2.5.31
     + GNU Bison 1.875d
     + a LaTeX installation (including IEEEtran bibstyle)
     + GNU Octave
     + epsTk 2.0.1 (at least)
  - Get latest `config.guess' and `config.sub' from GNU servers or run the
    command `automake -a -f -c' with latest automake version installed.
  - Run `make distclean', `sh autogen.sh' and `make all'.
  - Run `make distcheck'.
  - Check this status into CVS and tag it.

* Bump up version.
  - Add a ChangeLog entry in toplevel directory.
  - Add new section in NEWS.
  - Bump up version number in `configure.ac'.
  - Check into CVS.

* Distribute the package. 
  - Upload the package to the SourceForge server and add a News item.
  - Announce the release at Freshmeat.
  - Send an announcement to <qucs-help@lists.sourceforge.net>.
