Preparing Releases

Task list

• Go through all PR for the milestone
• Update Changelog
• Start a release branch
• (If needed) Revert whatever unintentional API/ABI breakage that might have occurred in the release branch
• Bump version to x.x.x in CMakeLists.txt
• Find replace all occurrences of x.x.x.99 CMake requirements in the tutorials and examples
• Try to build and test on all relevant platforms
• Finalize changelog and fix the release date
• Tag
• Remove the release branch
• Add binaries to the GitHub release page.
• Add link doc link to tutorials page
• Bump version to x.x.x-dev in CMakeLists.txt
• Send announcements to the mailing lists
• Throw a party!

Creating the Change Log

(Placeholder)

Shipping Binaries

Mac OSX

Ship only modules enabled by default. Assume only the following optionals: existence of VTK and OpenGL support

• Go to CMakeLists.txt and comment out all section regarding RPATH setup (we should allow this to be specified with CMAKE).
• Configure

$ cmake .. -DCPACK_GENERATOR="TBZ2" \
           -DCPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME="pcl-1.x.x-darwin"
           -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
           -DPCL_ENABLE_SSE=OFF \
           -DWITH_CUDA=OFF \
           -DWITH_DAVIDSDK=OFF \
           -DWITH_DOCS=OFF \
           -DWITH_DSSDK=OFF \
           -DWITH_ENSENSO=OFF \
           -DWITH_FZAPI=OFF \
           -DWITH_LIBUSB=OFF \
           -DWITH_OPENGL=ON \
           -DWITH_OPENNI=OFF \
           -DWITH_OPENNI2=OFF \
           -DWITH_PCAP=OFF \
           -DWITH_PNG=OFF \
           -DWITH_QHULL=OFF \
           -DWITH_QT=OFF \
           -DWITH_RSSDK=OFF \
           -DWITH_VTK=ON
$ make -j package
# and pray your system doesn't run out of memory