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| author | Paul Sherwood <paul.sherwood@codethink.co.uk> | 2018-04-17 09:31:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Sherwood <paul.sherwood@codethink.co.uk> | 2018-04-17 11:34:29 +0100 |
| commit | 14ce545e19713cee953079c6bc6717117ac15902 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cb7131519d78df33b8d7e50133de8b90cb22762 | |
| parent | 548c03f58b878fe685933e6e4d8209e80d37b8f5 (diff) | |
| download | buildstream-ps-add-diagram.tar.gz | |
Fix typo, mention inspiration projects, add diagramps-add-diagram
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/image-sources/buildstream-pipeline.odg | bin | 0 -> 19838 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/images/buildstream-pipeline.png | bin | 0 -> 349731 bytes |
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index df1f72f1a..c45568731 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -6,11 +6,20 @@ BuildStream What is BuildStream? ==================== -BuildStream is an Free Software tool for building/integrating software stacks. -It supports multiple build-systems (e.g. autotools, cmake, cpan, distutils, make, -meson, qmake), covers many programming languages, and can create outputs in a +BuildStream is a Free Software tool for building/integrating software stacks. +It takes inspiration, lessons and use-cases from various projects including +OBS, Reproducible Builds, Yocto, Baserock, Buildroot, Aboriginal, GNOME Continuous, +JHBuild, Flatpak Builder and Android repo. + +BuildStream supports multiple build-systems (e.g. autotools, cmake, cpan, distutils, +make, meson, qmake), covers many programming languages, and can create outputs in a range of packaging formats, for multiple platforms and chipsets. +Buildstream is designed to build, integrate and deploy software stacks in pipelines, +for example: + +.. image:: ./doc/images/buildstream-pipeline.png + Why should I use BuildStream? ============================= @@ -58,10 +67,10 @@ BuildStream operates on a set of YAML files (.bst files), as follows: * evaluates the version information and build instructions to calculate a build graph for the target(s) and all dependencies and unique cache-keys for each element -* retrieves elements from cache if they are already built, or builds them using - the instructions declared in the .bst files -* transforms and/or deploys the resulting target(s) based on the instructions - declared in the .bst files. +* retrieves elements from cache if they are already built, or builds them in a + sandboxed environment using the instructions declared in the .bst files +* transforms/configures and/or deploys the resulting target(s) based on the + instructions declared in the .bst files. How can I get started? ====================== diff --git a/build-bootstrap-cropped-1.png b/build-bootstrap-cropped-1.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 000000000..f5b2cdf8a --- /dev/null +++ b/build-bootstrap-cropped-1.png diff --git a/doc/image-sources/buildstream-pipeline.odg b/doc/image-sources/buildstream-pipeline.odg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 000000000..0c7ded981 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/image-sources/buildstream-pipeline.odg diff --git a/doc/images/buildstream-pipeline.png b/doc/images/buildstream-pipeline.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 000000000..23050eeda --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/images/buildstream-pipeline.png |
