Update notes on which Cygwin tools are needed to make a release on Windows

(corelist.pl no longer uses curl, diffstat is no longer required to produce
the list of acknowledgements and 7z should be used to create smaller
tarballs. Also, core-cpan-diff no longer uses wget.)

diff --git a/Porting/core-cpan-diff b/Porting/core-cpan-diff
index 1c47dc4..ac4f1c5 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/core-cpan-diff
+++ b/Porting/core-cpan-diff
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ use constant SRC_DIR => 'tarballs';
 use constant UNTAR_DIR => 'untarred';
 
 use constant DIFF_CMD => 'diff';
-use constant WGET_CMD => 'wget';
 
 sub usage {
     print STDERR "\n@_\n\n" if @_;
@@ -636,7 +635,7 @@ sub get_distribution {
 
     if ( -f $download_file and !-s $download_file ) {
 
-        # wget can leave a zero-length file on failed download
+        # failed download might leave a zero-length file
         unlink $download_file;
     }
 

diff --git a/Porting/makerel b/Porting/makerel
index 9084ac8..698d42b 100755 (executable)
--- a/Porting/makerel
+++ b/Porting/makerel
@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@
 # Cygwin and ensure its 'bin' folder is on the PATH in the shell where you run
 # this script. The Cygwin 'bin' folder needs to precede the Windows 'system32'
 # folder so that Cygwin's 'find' command is found in preference to the Windows
-# 'find' command. Your Cygwin installation will need to contain at least the
-# 'cpio' command, in addition to the commands installed by default, and it will
-# also be useful to have 'curl' and 'diffstat' installed too for later stages
-# of the release process (namely, Porting\corelist.pl and generating the commit
-# statistics for the perlXYZdelta.pod file respectively). Finally, ensure that
-# the 'awk' and 'shasum' commands are copies of gawk.exe and sha1sum.exe
-# respectively, rather than the links to them that only work in a Cygwin bash
-# shell which they are by default.
+# 'find' command. In addition to the commands installed by default, your Cygwin
+# installation will need to contain at least the 'cpio' and '7z' commands.
+# Finally, ensure that the 'awk', 'shasum' (if you have it) and '7z' commands
+# are copies of 'gawk.exe', 'sha1sum.exe' and 'lib\p7zip\7z.exe' respectively,
+# rather than the links to them that only work in a Cygwin bash shell which
+# they are by default.
 #
 # No matter how automated this gets, you'll always need to read
 # and re-read pumpkin.pod and release_managers_guide.pod to