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commit 316665f2fe39c1a5602faf1a2b0658d388ea988a
Author: Jesse Vincent <je...@bestpractical.com>
Date: Tue Feb 1 13:05:16 2011 -0500
update the release manager's guide to remove a now-autmated version
checking step.
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Summary of changes:
Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 14 ++------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index c6224ea..4bef565 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -231,16 +231,11 @@ fix.
I<You MAY SKIP this step for SNAPSHOT>
Run F<Porting/cmpVERSION.pl> to compare the current source tree with the
-previous version to check for for modules that have identical version
+previous version to check for dual-lifed modules that have identical version
numbers but different contents, e.g.:
$ cd ~/some-perl-root
- $ ./perl -Ilib Porting/cmpVERSION.pl -xd . v5.10.0
-
-then bump the version numbers of any non-dual-life modules that have
-changed since the previous release, but which still have the old version
-number. If there is more than one maintenance branch (e.g. 5.8.x, 5.10.x),
-then compare against both.
+ $ ./perl -Ilib Porting/cmpVERSION.pl -d . v5.10.0
Be sure to bump the version numbers in separate commits for each module
(or group of related modules) so that changes can be cherry-picked later
@@ -252,11 +247,6 @@ make sure you edit the correct file!
Once all version numbers have been bumped, re-run the checks.
-Then run again without the -x option, to check that dual-life modules are
-also sensible.
-
- $ ./perl -Ilib Porting/cmpVERSION.pl -d . v5.10.0
-
=item *
I<You MAY SKIP this step for SNAPSHOT>
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