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+HowTo make a new MXD2map release
+================================
+
+(replace the sample "0.2.0" with the apropriate version number)
+
+1. Take care everything is checked in properly.
+   Adjust version numbers in
+   contrib/installer/MXD2map-installer.nsi (PRODUCT_VERSION)
+   doku/source/conf.py (version und release)
+   and commit and push! (analog previous releases in ChangeLog)
+
+2. Create a source archive:
+   $ export MXD2MAPVERSION=0.8
+   $ hg archive -t tgz -X website -X HowToRelease.txt -X testdata-frida MXD2map-$MXD2MAPVERSION.tar.gz
+
+3. Create PDF-file of Documentation:
+   $ cd doku && make latexpdf
+
+4. Create new source-release on 0.8 on wald and upload Documentation-PDF and MXD2map-0.8.tar.gz
+
+4.1 Create Windows-Binary Installer (needs Windows-NSIS-Version and complete build)
+
+4.1.1 Build MXD2map:
+   
+   $ ant jar
+
+   Copy resulting mxd2map.jar into contrib/installer/bin/
+
+4.1.2 Fill ms_6.1-dev-Folder with Binary-windows-build
+
+4.1.3 Download example-data
+
+   $ cd contrib/installer/example/example/testdata-frida
+   $ wget ftp://ftp.intevation.de/freegis/frida/frida-1.0.1-shp.tar.gz
+   $ tar xvfz frida-1.0.1-shp.tar.gz
+   $ rm -f frida-1.0.1-shp.tar.gz
+
+4.1.4 Build the installer (requires NSIS >= 2.46-2):
+
+   $ cd contrib/installer
+   $ makensis -DVERSION_DATE=`date +%d.%m.%Y` MXD2map-installer.nsi
+
+4.2 Tag the release in HG:
+
+   $ hg tag -m "Tagged as release 'release-$MXD2MAPVERSION'" && hg push
+
+5. Update versions and URLs on the homepage (updates documentation as
+   well!) [requires sphinx available in $PATH]
+
+   $ cd website && edit files
+   $ hg commit -m "Updated Website to version $MXD2MAPVERSION, added download-links" && hg push
+   $ make online
+
+6. Announce the new release on the mailing lists.