Fully automate release

[garfieldnate]

Current release process:

• Clone all of SoarGroup's repos into a directory
• generate the manual via the makefile under ManualSource, or grab the built one from CI. It should be placed in the pdf directory.
• Download the Windows, Mac (x86-64) and Linux builds of Soar from the desired GH action workflow result
• Build the mac_ARM64 version locally (hope you have an M1 or M2 computer :) GH doesn't offer CI for it yet)
• Gather the following jar's under SoarShuffler/jars:
  • Eaters_TankSoar.jar
  • VisualSoar.jar
  • commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
  • log4j-1.2.15.jar
  • stopwatch-0.4-with-deps.jar

VisualSoar and Eaters_TankSoar must be built from their repositories (although I had to fix VisualSoar, see https://github.com/SoarGroup/VisualSoar/issues/1), and the others are in the lib/ directory in the VisualSoar repository. Note that the log4j one is not affected by the famous security bug.

• Set your environment variables for SoarShuffler. Here's my .env for an example:

export SOAR_RELEASE_VERSION=9.6.1
export SOAR_SHUFFLER_OUTPUT_DIR=./SoarRelease
export SOAR_WIN_X86_64_COMPILED_DIR=~/Downloads/Soar_windows-x86-64_out
export SOAR_LINUX_X86_64_COMPILED_DIR=~/Downloads/Soar_linux-x86-64_out
export SOAR_MAC_X86_64_COMPILED_DIR=~/Downloads/Soar_mac-x86-64_out
export SOAR_MAC_ARM64_COMPILED_DIR=~/dev/workspaces/c_workspace/Soar/out
export SOAR_GROUP_REPOS_HOME=~/dev/workspaces/c_workspace/

• Run SoarShuffle:

  cd SoarShuffle python3 soar_shuffler.py Soar_Projects_Filelist.txt

You'll get the release directories wherever you specified in the SOAR_SHUFFLER_OUTPUT_DIR env var.

[garfieldnate]

The release instructions are now detailed in the readme; they are even longer than the ones listed in my last comment XD This ticket still stands.

[garfieldnate]

The release process is now a sort of checklist in release.py; over time we can automate the individual steps (there are 20ish).