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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. Hat trick? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    3rd one today? -scc

  2. Fijilt Pjsto. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Zymeun Sux, use the K instead!

  3. oh man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why does that sound so dirty... must try to think cleaner thoughts...

    Build Buddy, Build Buddy...
    Wherever I build, he's gonna build!
    Build Buddy, Build Buddy...
    He's building everything that I'd build!

    Build Buddy and me,
    we'd build versioned trees,
    Build Buddy and me,
    we're the best friends that could be!

    Build Buddy, Build Buddy--
    Build Buddy and me!