[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Releasing an application...

[From: Toni Willberg]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:54 +0530, Mayank Jain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Past two weeks, I've been developing "Maemo Terminal" as my weekend
> project. Its almost ready for its first release. But, i'm stuck at a
> roadblock. Please help...
> 
> How do I clean the project directory, ie the files generated by my
> ./autogen.sh & ./configure scripts? Have a look at the project
> directory... How can i clean it up so as i can tar the directory &
> release it. Are there any general guidelines (except maemo tutorial)
> to make & release project tarballs? Also, which are the file that
> should be included in a tarball?

Usually you create a release-tarball by issuing "make dist" command. It
will create a versioned tarball of you application. This is true only in
case you have correctly written .in/.ac files, and you've included all
necessary stuff in them.

You can find some related documentation fe. from:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/

- Toni