openmicroscopy/bioformats — pull request #771 by rleigh-dundee (2013-10-29 21:48:20+00:00)
Title: Create source release artifact

This PR is only aiming to address #11608. It's not tackling any of the other versioning issues in the story. It just adds a top-level "release" target which produces a "bioformats-${version}.zip" zip of the git repo using "git archive". It also splits out the release version numbering from common.xml to a new version.xml ant script. While this is currently just moving the one target to a new file, the intention is that this will be further modified in subsequent PRs to handle proper release versioning to address some of the other tasks in #11593 such as #11596 and #11599.

- is the "release" target name OK?
- is creating it in the project root OK, or should it go elsewhere? I thought about jars/ along with the other artifacts, except that it's not a jar!
- is the zipfile content OK?