1 Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
7 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
8 and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
9 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
10 what you do when using them.
13 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
17 The release process used by GNU Emacs.
21 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, announcements, etc.
25 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
28 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
32 Build Emacs in various configurations.
36 Build Emacs in various ways.
38 ** quick-install-emacs
40 Install emacs quickly ("incrementally").
44 Run the codespell tool on the Emacs sources. Requires codespell to be
49 A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X. Can
50 be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
54 Check doc strings against documentation.
58 Tests for custom types and load problems.
62 Show files added/removed between two tar files.
65 * Brief description of sub-directories.
67 charsets scripts for generating charset map files
69 coccinelle semantic patches for use with the static code
70 analyzer coccinelle. Since they apply a few
71 minor changes in Emacs internals in multiple
72 places, they are trivial for copyright
74 codespell supporting files for the run-codespell script.
75 grammars wisent and bovine grammars, used to produce
77 notes miscellaneous notes related to administrative
79 nt support files for administrative tasks related
80 to building MS-Windows distributions.
81 unidata scripts for generating character property files
82 in ../lisp/international/.
85 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
87 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
88 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
89 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
90 (at your option) any later version.
92 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
93 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
94 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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97 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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