HOWTO-RELEASE.txt

CMake variables:

INSTDIR = share/octave/packages where

To make toolbox and package

  cmake -B BUILD
  cd BUILD
  make all
  make test

"make all" calls "make package" which creates

Creating Octave package dist/geographiclib-octave-2.0-alpha.tar.gz
Creating MATLAB toolbox dist/geographiclib_toolbox-2.0-alpha.zip

Other CMake targets
  install - installs .m files to
    ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${INSTDIR}/geographiclib
  stage-dist - move packages to distrib-Octave and to central staging
    area
  deploy-dist - sync packages from staging area to SourceForge.

Documentation is primarily in README.md (accessed via github)
+ the .m files (esp Contents, geoddoc, projdoc, gedoc)
+ NEWS + DESCRIPTION
+ distrib-Octave/00README.md abbreviated README for package distribution

Before release:
  CMakeLists.txt
      PROJECT_VERSION_SUFFIX to ""
      RELEASE_DATE
  NEWS fix date
  Remove alpha versions of the distribution from distrib-Octave

After release
  upload to MATLAB Central
    https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/50605
    update blurb to refer to
      https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib-octave#readme
    download toolbox package (after an hour or so)
  notify Fedora maintainer: Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com>
  tag git vM.N

Registered with Octave package site
https://gnu-octave.github.io/packages/geographiclib