Creating a release

• Run the full testsuite (tests\testament\tester all) and ensure it's green; actually ensure travis is green (Usually the case these days)

• Update news.txt

• write a news ticker entry

• Update the version

  • In system.nim

• Recompile koch!

• Generate the full docs; koch web0

• Test the installers: koch testinstall

• Tag the release, e.g. git tag -am "Version 0.15.0" v0.15.0

• Push the tag: git push origin [tagname]

• Run tools/winrelease

• Upload the produced .zips.

• Merge devel into master

• Update csources via koch pushcsources

The following shell script shall be replaced by 'koch unixrelease' Shell script to build a source tarball:

#!/bin/sh
set -eu
tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
cd $tmp_dir
git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim.git
cd Nim
git clone -q --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources
( cd csources && sh build.sh )
bin/nim c koch
./koch boot -d:release
./koch web0
PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/bin
./koch csource -d:release
./koch xz -d:release

Website

• Create a new blog post in _drafts
• When ready to release:
  • move the blog post into _posts
  • modify config.yml's version key to the new version
  • git commit
  • git push live master (the live remote is a strict secret)