SWI-Prolog maintenance scripts

This directory contains various scripts used for regular maintenance and managing releases. Some are old and merely kept for reference. See also doc/Release.md. Some actively used scripts:

Release management

• newversion
  Used to update the SWI-Prolog version. Edit VERSION in the top-dir and run scripts/newversion to update SWI-Prolog.h,man/main.doc and set a GIT release tag on the repo and its submodules.

• mkchangelog [--no-date] [version]
  Generate the changelog. Without arguments dump changes since the last release to stdout. After generating a release, the changelog is generated using the command below. Use the previous version.

  scripts/mkchangelog --no-date 9.1.20
  

• make-distribution
  Intended to be sourced. Defines functions to build and upload a release. Needs editing when used outside by build machines.

• make-src-tape
  Create a .tar.gz file from the GIT repo and its submodules. See script for options. Normally used through make-distribution

Build management

• configure
  Sets CMake flags depending on the name of the build directory as build.feature1-feature2-.... See script for details. For example:

  mkdir build.pgo
  cd build.pgo
  ../scripts/configure
  

• swipl-activate [--installed]
  Activate the Prolog from the current build directory in $HOME/bin. By default from the build dir, using --installed from the installed location.

• macos-deps.sh
  Build MacOS dependencies for releases. See script for details.

Helpers

• macosx_bundle_fixup.sh
  Used by CPack to finalize the dependencies in the MacOS bundle.