From: Jason Stephenson Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:45:03 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add release notes for the new updates tools. X-Git-Url: https://old-git.evergreen-ils.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bdb481d7909b5eba92dd5f871765d6d20642c512;p=working%2FEvergreen.git Add release notes for the new updates tools. Signed-off-by: Jason Stephenson --- diff --git a/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/new-updates-tools.txt b/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/new-updates-tools.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b5686db758 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/RELEASE_NOTES_NEXT/new-updates-tools.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +New Updates Tools +================= + +Source code for tools to generate the staff clients updates tools were +added to Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/external/libmar. These tools +replace the downloadable tools from Mozilla.org that were previously +used to generate the staff client updates files. + +They come with their own configuration script and are condfigured +automatically as a subpackage when you configure Evergreen for +installation. They are also built and ready for use when you make +Evergreen during the installation or upgrade process. + +The make_updates.sh script that is run when you tell Evergreen to make +the staff client updates has been modified to use the new tools. + +These tools introduce no new dependencies on building or running +Evergreen. + +Nothing in the user facing behavior of building updates changes with +these tools. They are drop-in replacements for the previous tools and +you don't even need to know that they are there. + +These tools were added to Evergreen to be an aid in portability to +operating systems other than Linux. They also remove a dependency on +a third-party tool, that is typically downloaded as a binary.