Ximian Build Buddy released as GPL

The Ximian Build System, Build Buddy, is now available to the community, in GPL form. 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).

* Flexible XML package metadata description.

Build Buddy was originally developed for--of course--packaging GNOME! It is our hope that the GNOME
community can find this tool as useful as we have.

Sound interesting? Visit http://primates.ximian.com/~thunder/bb/ for other documentation and links. We are very
interested in starting a user and developer community around BB. Make sure you contact us via the mailing
lists if you have any questions.

Cheers,

-Dan Mills, BB Maintainer