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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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8 This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
9 and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
10 because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
11 what you do when using them.
14 * Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
18 Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
22 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
26 Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
28 ** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
30 Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
33 * Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
37 Build Emacs in various configurations.
41 Build Emacs in various ways.
43 ** quick-install-emacs
45 Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
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.
66 Get CVS diffs of files.
69 Brief description of sub-directories:
71 charsets scripts for generating charset map files
73 unidata scripts for generating character property files
74 in ../lisp/international
77 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
79 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
80 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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84 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
85 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
86 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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89 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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