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   1                          The admin directory
   2
   3 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
   4 and maintaining Emacs.  These files are not part of Emacs releases
   5 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
   6 what you do when using them.
   7
   8
   9 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
  10
  11 ** FOR-RELEASE
  12
  13 Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
  14
  15 ** make-tarball.txt
  16
  17 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
  18
  19 ** admin.el
  20
  21 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
  22
  23 ** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
  24
  25 Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
  26
  27
  28 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
  29
  30 ** build-configs
  31
  32 Build Emacs in various configurations.
  33
  34 ** make-emacs
  35
  36 Build Emacs in various ways.
  37
  38 ** quick-install-emacs
  39
  40 Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
  41
  42 ** alloc-color.c
  43
  44 A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X.  Can
  45 be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
  46
  47 ** check-doc-strings
  48
  49 Check doc strings against documentation.
  50
  51 ** cus-test.el
  52
  53 Tests for custom types and load problems.
  54
  55 ** diff-tar-files
  56
  57 Show files added/removed between two tar files.
  58
  59 ** revdiff
  60
  61 Get CVS diffs of files.
  62
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  64
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  66 Local variables:
  67 mode: outline
  68 paragraph-separate: "[  \f]*$"
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