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Novell Releases Ximian's Build Buddy

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-all dept.

BB maintainer Dan Mills writes "The Ximian Build System, Build Buddy, is now available to the community. This is a very exciting moment, and one that many of us at Ximian have been hoping would come. Build Buddy is a cross-platform packaging system designed with flexibility, reproducibility, and automation in mind. It features: support for producing RPM, Deb, and SD (HP-UX) packages; a testing/package verification framework; Red Carpet integration; command-line and Web interfaces; support for remote build scheduling via XML-RPC; reproducible build environments (chroot jails); and flexible XML package metadata description. Sound interesting? Visit primates.ximian.com/~thunder/bb for other documentation and links. We are very interested in starting a user and developer community around BB. Feel free to contact us via the mailing lists if you have any questions."

3 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. your buddy by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, the folks at Ximian are so enamored of monkeys that they made "Build Buddy", a purple bonobo that wants to be your software development friend.

    He talks to you!
    He can search the Internet for you!
    He can write your Makefiles!
    He will give you helpful hints on your compile errors!
    He can tell jokes!
    He will remind you to document your code!
    He knows lots of trivia questions about C++ syntax!
    Best of all, he's FREE!
    Download your very own "Build Buddy" and make a new friend today!

    Note for stupid people: the preceeding was entirely made up.

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  2. Re:shop and compare by Directrix1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    One way to find out:
    emerge buildbudy --pretend

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  3. But... by Mikkeles · · Score: 2, Funny
    "It features: support for producing RPM, Deb, and SD (HP-UX) packages; a testing/package verification framework; Red Carpet integration; command-line and Web interfaces; support for remote build scheduling via XML-RPC; reproducible build environments (chroot jails); and flexible XML package metadata description."

    But can it read mail?

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