diff: check for junk files before release.

Tyson Dowd trd at stimpy.cs.mu.oz.au
Sun Mar 22 00:20:24 AEDT 1998 

Hi,

Working on mercury-0.7.3 recently made me aware of this one.

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compiler/notes/release_checklist.html:
	Add a note about checking for junk files in the checkout
	directory before preparing a release.


cvs server: Diffing compiler/notes
Index: compiler/notes/release_checklist.html
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/compiler/notes/release_checklist.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 release_checklist.html
--- release_checklist.html	1997/11/17 07:37:59	1.4
+++ release_checklist.html	1998/03/21 13:16:25
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <html>
 <head>
-<title>Mercury Coding Standard for the Mercury Project</title>
+<title>Release Checklist for the Mercury Project</title>
 </head>
 
 <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@
      /home/mercury/public/test_mercury/scripts/mercury:
      set the RELEASE_VERSION and CHECKOUT_OPTS variables
      as explained in the comments there.
+
+<li> Look carefully in the checked out sources in
+     /home/mercury/public/test_mercury/murlibobo for junk files.
+     Sometimes people leave debugging output or .o files in these
+     directories, which just add to the size of the release.
 
 <li> Run tools/run_all_tests_from_cron on murlibobo.
      (Or just wait 24 hours or so.) <p>


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