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@@ -97,3 +97,15 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
which limits the number of children to two (this doesn't work at the
top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes).
+
+* To create a release tarball go to the top-level directory and run
+ ./bin/release. You can optionally supply one or more of the words
+ `tar', `gzip', `bzip2' or `compress' on the command line. The
+ result will be a (compressed) tar file(s) in the `releases'
+ directory. The README file is updated to contain the release date
+ and version number.
+
+* To create a tarball of all the files which are part of HDF5 go to
+ the top-level directory and type:
+
+ tar cvf foo.tar `grep '^\.' MANIFEST |unexpand |cut -f1`