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+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+# This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+# with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+# ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+# License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+# except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+# the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+#
+
+Adapting version after a release of an office
+=============================================
+After a release the entries in cli_ure/version/version.txt must be changed to reflect the versions
+of the assemblies at the time of the release. Please refer to the document at
+http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/assemblyversioning.html
+for more information about versioning of assemblies.
+
+
+Step 1: Remove old office installations.
+
+To do this, deinstall all offices,
+and make sure that there are no assemblies installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). The GAC
+is contained in C:\Windows\assembly. Change C:\Windows according to your windows installation.
+Use the Windows Explorer to view the contents of the GAC. Are there any of the following assemblies
+installed:
+
+cli_uretypes.dll
+cli_basetypes.dll
+cli_cppuhelper.dll
+cli_ure.dll
+cli_oootypes.dll (build in unoil)
+
+policy.x.y.cli_uretypes.dll
+policy.x.y.cli_basetypes.dll
+policy.x.y.cli_ure.dll
+policy.x.y.cli_cppuhelper.dll
+policy.x.y.cli_oootypes.dll (build in unoil)
+
+The "x" and "y" in the names of the policy assemblies are to be replaces by version numbers. At the
+time of writing the real names are:
+
+policy.1.0.cli_uretypes.dll
+policy.1.0.cli_basetypes.dll
+policy.1.0.cli_ure.dll
+policy.1.0.cli_cppuhelper.dll
+policy.1.0.cli_ootypes.dll (build in unoil)
+
+After deinstalling the offices, there should none of them remain in the GAC. If there are some, then
+try to remove them by clicking on them and choosing uninstall.
+
+Step 2: Install the office of the last release (respin when using staroffice)
+
+Step 3: Determine the versions of the assemblies
+
+Use the Windows Explorer to view the contents of the Windows\assembly directory. Locate the assemblies
+and policy assemblies. See step 1 for the names of those assemblies. Take down the version number as
+can be found in the version column, which is usually right next to the name column.
+
+Step 4: Changing the versions in the cli_ure module.
+
+Open the file cli_ure\version\version.txt.
+The file contains name/value pairs, such as:CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.3.0.
+The first part of the names represent the assembly which they are referring to. So obviously
+entries starting with CLI_URETYPES refer to the cli_uretypes.dll. Entries which contain the part "POLICY" refer
+to the policy assembly. For example:
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION refers to the policy assembly for cli_uretypes which is named
+policy.1.0.cli_uretypes.dll
+
+The versions may already have been incremented because someone has changed code after the
+last release. So if a version from version.txt is greater than the one of the respective
+assembly in the GAC then leave it at that.
+
+The values have to be adjusted as follows:
+
+XYZ_NEW_VERSION : increase the value of the version
+GAC. "XYZ_" would be "CLI_URETYPES", "CLI_URE", etc.
+XYZ_OLD_VERSION : must be changes so that the right version part is one less than
+XYZ_NEW_VERSION. For example
+
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.[3].0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=1.0.0.0-1.0.[2].0
+
+The affected part is marked by the brackets.
+
+XYZ_POLICY_VERSION: change the version according to the version of the policy assembly from the
+GAC.
+
+XYZ_POLICY_ASSEMBLY: remain unchanged.
+
+Commit the changes and rebuild the project.
+
+Step 5: Changing the versions in the unoil module
+
+The unoil module builds the cli_oootypes.dll which contains the office types (offapi). Change the contents
+of unoil/climaker/version.txt similar to the versions.txt in this module. Then rebuild the module
+
+
+The automatic test in cli_ure/qa/versioning should be extended. See the readme.txt in that directory
+for more information.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+How does the version mechanism works
+====================================
+
+The assemblies which are build in this project have a strong name and hence a version. The version should
+be increased whenever something was fixed or the code has changed in any way. For further information
+have a look at
+http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/assemblyversioning.html
+
+The versions of all assemblies are contained in cli_ure/version/version.txt. This is the place where
+the versions are changed. This will happen under two circumstances. First, the versions are
+adjusted AFTER an office was released. The version.txt must then contain the versions at the
+time of the release. Second, when something was fixed. Then a version should be changed unless
+this has already be done for the next release. Please look at the document mentioned further
+above.
+
+If new published UNO types have been added since the last release (product update) then the
+minor version of cli_uretypes.dll should be incremented. When building the version directory, a script
+is run that recognizes this and writes a cliureversion.mk file in the bin directory.
+cliureversion.mk contains all the entries of version.txt. The versions have been incremented
+by the script. The script obtains the information of new types from unotype_statistics.txt
+which is build in offapi.
+
+The contents of cliureversion.mk is used when building the assemblies in this project. It
+is also delivered so that instset_native (or instsetoo_native) can use it when building
+the installation sets.
+
+
+The contents of version.txt
+===========================
+The entries in version.txt are needed for building the assemblies and for building the
+installation set (msi database).
+
+For every assembly exist four
+entries. For example:
+
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.3.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=1.0.0.0-1.0.2.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=3.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_ASSEMBLY=policy.1.0.cli_uretypes
+
+The meaning of these entries is the following:
+
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION represents the current version of the assembly.
+
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION represents a range of former versions (which were compatible).
+It has to be placed in the
+cli_uretypes.config XML file which is part of the policy assembly. This is done automatically.
+The XYZ_OLD_VERSION and XYZ_NEW_VERSION values are used for the binding redirection of
+the policy file.
+
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION represents the version of the policy file.
+
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_ASSEMBLY represents the name of the policy file.
+
+Please refer to the document at
+http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/assemblyversioning.html
+about how the versions have to look like.
+
+When the minor version is changed, which is the third number from the left, the
+"old version" and the policy version must be changed as well. Using the former example,
+an incremented version would look like this:
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.4.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=1.0.0.0-1.0.3.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=4.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_ASSEMBLY=policy.1.0.cli_uretypes
+
+If the major version changed we would have these values:
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=2.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=2.0.0.0-2.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=1.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_ASSEMBLY=policy.2.0.cli_uretypes
+
+Because a change of a major is only done if the code has changed incompatibly, we must not
+redirect old client code to the new assembly. Actually we would not need a policy file here.
+The name of the policy file has changed as well so as to refer to the new version. Since
+the name is new and refers to the version 2 of cli_uretypes, we can start with the policy version
+from 1.
+
+The next compatible change would require to change the version to these:
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=2.0.1.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=2.0.0.0-2.0.1.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=2.0.0.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_ASSEMBLY=policy.2.0.cli_uretypes
+
+
+Automatic incrementation of the version
+=======================================
+Currently switched off! See cli_ure/version/makefile.mk
+The automatic incrementation of the version this is done when new published types have been
+introduce between two releases.In cli_ure/version/makefile.mk the script
+cli_ure/source/scripts/increment_version.pl
+is run which creates the cliureversion.mk with the new versions. This automatism only changes
+the version parts which have the meaning of a compatible change. Which versions are to be
+incremented is contained in cli_ure/version/incversions.txt. It contains, for example these entries:
+
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION
+
+The names are exactly the same as in version.txt. The script knows how to increase the version
+of the different types:
+
+Entries ending on _NEW_VERSION: The third number from the left is incremented.
+Entries ending on _OLD_VERSION: The third number from the left of the second version is incremented.
+Entries ending on _POLICY_VERSION: The first number from the left is incremented.
+
+For example, the versions in version.txt are:
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.4.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=1.0.0.0-1.0.3.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=4.0.0.0
+
+If new types have been added the script would create these entries in cliureversion.mk
+CLI_URETYPES_NEW_VERSION=1.0.5.0
+CLI_URETYPES_OLD_VERSION=1.0.0.0-1.0.4.0
+CLI_URETYPES_POLICY_VERSION=5.0.0.0
+
+As one can see from the incversions.txt, the versions of the cli_ure.dll and cli_cppuhelper.dll
+are also changed. This is because these are dependent on cli_uretypes.dll.
+
+
+Further notes on increasing the assembly versions
+================================
+Changing a version for one assembly means changing
+at least the XYZ_NEW_VERSION, XYZ_OLD_VERSION and XYZ_POLICY_VERSION. In case of an incompatible
+change, that is one of the first two numbers of the version has been changed, the XYZ_POLICY_ASSEMBLY
+must also be changed.
+
+When changing a version of an assembly then the versions of the assemblies which depend on it should
+be changed as well. For example, when changing the version of cli_uretypes.dll, then the versions of
+cli_ure.dll and cli_cppuhelper.dll should be changed as well. One can use idlasm.exe to see which
+assemblies are referenced by an assembly. The information is contained in the assemblie's manifest.
+
+If one would not change the versions of the dependent dlls then one would risk that an assembly
+has the same old version but references a different assembly. For example, say we have a
+cli_uretypes.dll with version 1 and a cli_ure.dll with version 1. cli_ure.dll references version 1 of
+cli_uretypes.dll. Now the version of cli_uretypes.dll changes to version 2 and its policy assembly is
+adapted so that all code that uses version 1 now uses version 2. This would also allow cli_ure.dll
+o run with the new cli_uretypes.dll. If now cli_ure.dll is build, then it would reference
+cli_uretypes.dll version 2, because our build environment does not keep the older assembly. The old
+cli_uretypes.dll version 1 was replaced by version 2. cli_ure.dll now references cli_uretypes.dll version 2
+but still has the old version.
+
+
+
+rebasing of assemblies
+=======================================================
+Neither assemblies nor policy assemblies may be rebased. This would
+make the signature invalid. Therefore all assemblies must be contained
+in postprocess/rebase/no_rebase.txt