[boost] [1.35.0] Building the release?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-21 21:35:25

I'm starting to test build release candidate files for 1.35.0.

The 1.34.0 and 1.34.1 release candidates were build by hand, IIUC.

There is a Python script to do that job 
(boost-root/tools/release/make_tarballs.py), but it is out of date. I'm 
starting to work on updating it.

What does such a script have to do?

* Export SVN branches/release with the correct line endings for POSIX 
and Windows.
* Build the quickbook/boostbook docs.
* Set various file permissions.
* Build the actual .zip, .gz, .bz2, and .7z files.

What else? Where do the beta.boost.org web pages come from?

--Beman

PS: In the future, I think we should start building release files 
nightly for the next release as soon as a release ships. That will speed 
the process of identifying problems.