`win-versioninfo': all builds of all Windows binaries now contain

[u/mdw/putty] / CHECKLST.txt

diff --git a/CHECKLST.txt b/CHECKLST.txt
index 2be089e..608d578 100644 (file)
--- a/CHECKLST.txt
+++ b/CHECKLST.txt
@@ -21,10 +21,17 @@ The resource files:
  - putty/windows/puttygen.rc
     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
- - putty/windows/win_res.rc
+ - putty/windows/win_res.rc2
     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
+ - putty/windows/version.rc2
+    + the copyright date appears once only.
  - putty/mac/mac_res.r
+    + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
+      once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
+ - putty/mac/macpgen.r
+    + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
+      once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
  - putty/unix/gtkdlg.c
     + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
       once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
@@ -41,8 +48,9 @@ The website:
 Before tagging a release
 ------------------------
 
- - First of all, go through the source and remove anything tagged
-   with a comment containing the word XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE.
+ - First of all, go through the source (including the documentation)
+   and remove anything tagged with a comment containing the word
+   XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE.
 
 For a long time we got away with never checking the current version
 number in at all - all version numbers were passed into the build
@@ -59,12 +67,18 @@ orders them correctly with respect to releases):
 
  - putty/LATEST.VER
 
-The Windows installer script:
+The Windows installer script (_three_ times, on consecutive lines,
+and again in a subsequent comment):
 
  - putty/windows/putty.iss
 
+The Windows resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the
+VERSIONINFO resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means):
+
+ - putty/windows/version.rc2 (BASE_VERSION; NB, _comma_-separated)
+
 The Mac resource file (used to generate the binary bit of the 'vers'
-resources -- the strings are supplied by the usual means):
+resources):
 
  - putty/mac/version.r
 
@@ -107,7 +121,8 @@ of the tag.
 
  - Build the Windows/x86 release binaries. Don't forget to supply
    VER=/DRELEASE=<ver>. Run them, or at least one or two of them, to
-   ensure that they really do report their version number correctly.
+   ensure that they really do report their version number correctly,
+   and sanity-check the version info reported on the files by Windows.
     + Save the release link maps. Currently I keep these on ixion,
       in src/putty/local/maps-<version>.
 
@@ -119,7 +134,10 @@ of the tag.
     + Make sure Owen has kept the Alpha release link maps somewhere
       useful.
 
- - Run Halibut to build the docs.
+ - Run Halibut to build the docs. Define VERSION on the make command
+   line to override the version strings, since Subversion revision
+   numbers are less meaningful on a tag.
+    + make -C doc VERSION="PuTTY release 0.XX"
 
  - Build the binary archives putty.zip (one for each architecture):
    each one just contains all the .exe files except PuTTYtel, and
@@ -228,6 +246,8 @@ of the tag.
 
  - Announce the release!
     + Mail the announcement to putty-announce.
+       * Set a Reply-To on the mail so that people don't keep
+        replying to my personal address.
     + Post it to comp.security.ssh.
     + Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.