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short-description: Creating releases
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# Creating releases
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In addition to development, almost all projects provide periodical
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source releases. These are standalone packages (usually either in tar
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or zip format) of the source code. They do not contain any revision
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control metadata, only the source code.
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Meson provides a simple way of generating these. It consists of a
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single command:
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ninja dist
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This creates a file called `projectname-version.tar.xz` in the build
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tree subdirectory `meson-dist`. This archive contains the full
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contents of the latest commit in revision control including all the
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submodules. All revision control metadata is removed. Meson then takes
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this archive and tests that it works by doing a full compile + test +
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install cycle. If all these pass, Meson will then create a SHA-256
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checksum file next to the archive.
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**Note**: Meson behaviour is different from Autotools. The Autotools
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"dist" target packages up the current source tree. Meson packages
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the latest revision control commit. The reason for this is that it
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prevents developers from doing accidental releases where the
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distributed archive does not match any commit in revision control
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(especially the one tagged for the release).
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