Making a binary release of JTidy

$Id: release.html,v 1.1 2000/11/03 16:49:28 lempinen Exp $
$Author: lempinen $

The Ant build file (build.xml) contains a target (release) which can be used for easily building a binary release of JTidy for public distribution.

The release target takes care of executing the following steps:

• tagging the CVS repository with the release identifier,
• copying the project contents into a release directory,
• generating a change log in the release directory,
• compiling the classes and javadoc in the release directory,
• moving the classes into a jar file,
• creating a zip file with the contents of the release directory and
• uploading the zip file into SourceForge.

Executing the target requires that you specify the following properties when executing Ant:

version

The HTML Tidy version that JTidy is based on (e.g. 04aug2000)

update

Subrelease within the major Tidy release (a number)

In order to create the jtidy-04aug2000r5 release, for example, you can run Ant as

   % ant -Dversion=04aug2000 -Dupdate=5 release