Release procedure notes

• Documentation:

  • release notes: edit CHANGES_McStas
  • update version number in doc/manuals/preamble_common.tex
  • draft email message for neutron, nobugs, mcstas-users

• Build:

  • build the manual
  • on debian, build for: debs (32/64), RPMs (32/64), src_bin (32/64), windows (32)
  • linux meta packages:
    • in meta-pkgs/deb, update version numbers in the control.* files,
    • run build_deb_metas
    • commit resulting .deb files
    • in meta-pkgs/rpm, create new versions of .spec files with update version numbers
    • run build_rpm_metas
    • copy resulting .rpm files (typically in your local (home directory) rpmbuild folder) to RPMS
  • on 3 macs, build for the 3 newest macos releases, currently: El Capitan (64), Yosemite (64), Mavericks (64).

• Tests:

  • "mcrun --test" should look ok
  • compile test (the above does not fail for instruments which do not have a test)
  • verify tools: use mcgui, mcgui-py with mcrun, mcrun-py and mcplot, mcplot-afewothers to run a few instruments
  • mcdoc should output a nice table for most/every component and instrument

• Distribute:

  • make available online