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1 Prerelease

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1. BuildMpsIdl on all supported platforms, and run the MpsSimpleExample
2. Run the C++ against C++, Java against Java, and C++ against Java.
3. Once they all build, bump the version number in configure.in
4. Update the README
5. Make sure the source documentation is up-to-date
6. Tag the CVS modules with the new number (release_X_Y_Z)
7. Make a release source tarball
8. Update the website

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2 Packaging

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1. Make source and binary RPMs from the release source tarball
   1. untar
   2. ./configure
   3. copy the spec file somewhere
   4. put the source tarball in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
   5. rpm -ba mps2.spec
   6. the RPMs will be in /usr/src/redhat/{SRPMS,RPMS/i386}

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3 Upload

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1. Put the release tarball and both RPMs in mpsidl.sourceforge.net/downloads
2. Upload the files to SourceForge (maybe)
3. Announce on mpsidl-announce (see MailingLists)
4. Announce on Freshmeat...

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