This updates the make release-message rule to include the latest NEWS
section at the top of the release message. The release messages
currently contain a lot of boring boilerplate that I imagine very few
people are really be interested in. For someone idly following Cogl
development though it's quite possible they'd like to see a digestible
summary of what has changed in this release which is what the NEWS
section provides.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
The changelog generation scripts used for releases are overly elaborate
and fragile. A Changelog is also no substitute for the Git log so now we
simply ship a static Changelog that points to the Git log instead.
The check for the version number was checking against the 2.0.0 micro
version number which isn't expected to change for a long time so the
test was useless.
The release template had the wrong version number and download URL and
the subject was slightly different from what we used in the previous
release. Also the parts split out from the README were including the
-- separator. These have been removed using tail -n +1. The
documentation section is updated to match the message used for the
1.7.0 release. There is now a note about the release being a
development snapshot that only gets added depending on
COGL_RELEASE_STATUS.
This explicitly renames the cogl-2.0 reference manual to
cogl-2.0-experimental and renames the cogl-2.0 pkg-config file to
cogl-2.0-experimental.pc. Hopefully this should avoid
miss-understandings.
This adds an autogen.sh, configure.ac and build/autotool files etc under
clutter/cogl and makes some corresponding Makefile.am changes that make
it possible to build and install Cogl as a standalone library.
Some notable things about this are:
A standalone installation of Cogl installs 3 pkg-config files;
cogl-1.0.pc, cogl-gl-1.0.pc and cogl-2.0.pc. The second is only for
compatibility with what clutter installed though I'm not sure that
anything uses it so maybe we could remove it. cogl-1.0.pc is what
Clutter would use if it were updated to build against a standalone cogl
library. cogl-2.0.pc is what you would use if you were writing a
standalone Cogl application.
A standalone installation results in two libraries currently, libcogl.so
and libcogl-pango.so. Notably we don't include a major number in the
sonames because libcogl supports two major API versions; 1.x as used by
Clutter and the experimental 2.x API for standalone applications.
Parallel installation of later versions e.g. 3.x and beyond will be
supportable either with new sonames or if we can maintain ABI then we'll
continue to share libcogl.so.
The headers are similarly not installed into a directory with a major
version number since the same headers are shared to export the 1.x and
2.x APIs (The only difference is that cogl-2.0.pc ensures that
-DCOGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_2_0_API is used). Parallel installation of
later versions is not precluded though since we can either continue
sharing or later add a major version suffix.
