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Copyright (C) 2001-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
The admin directory
This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
what you do when using them.
* Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
** release-process
The release process used by GNU Emacs.
** make-tarball.txt
Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, announcements, etc.
** admin.el
Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
* Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
** build-configs
Build Emacs in various configurations.
** make-emacs
Build Emacs in various ways.
** quick-install-emacs
Install emacs quickly ("incrementally").
** run-codespell
Run the codespell tool on the Emacs sources. Requires codespell to be
installed first.
** alloc-colors.c
A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X. Can
be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
** check-doc-strings
Check doc strings against documentation.
** cus-test.el
Tests for custom types and load problems.
** diff-tar-files
Show files added/removed between two tar files.
* Brief description of sub-directories.
charsets scripts for generating charset map files
in ../etc/charsets
coccinelle semantic patches for use with the static code
analyzer coccinelle. Since they apply a few
minor changes in Emacs internals in multiple
places, they are trivial for copyright
purposes.
codespell supporting files for the run-codespell script.
grammars wisent and bovine grammars, used to produce
files in lisp/cedet/.
notes miscellaneous notes related to administrative
tasks.
nt support files for administrative tasks related
to building MS-Windows distributions.
unidata scripts for generating character property files
in ../lisp/international/.
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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