./pkgtools/bob, Fast, robust, powerful, and user-friendly package builder

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.0.0, Package name: bob-1.0.0, Maintainer: jperkin

Fast, robust, powerful, and user-friendly pkgsrc package builder.

Bob is a comprehensive utility for building pkgsrc packages in parallel inside
sandboxes.

Bob is designed to be an easy-to-use and complete replacement for build tools
such as pbulk, pkg_chk, or pkg_rolling-replace, while providing a modern
intuitive interface and many additional features for local pkgsrc development,
bulk build reporting and publishing, and failure analysis.


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   2026-06-12 14:20:39 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (5)
Log message:
bob: Import version 1.0.0.

Bob is designed to be an easy-to-use and complete replacement for build tools
such as pbulk, pkg_chk, or pkg_rolling-replace, while providing a modern
intuitive interface and many additional features for local pkgsrc development,
bulk build reporting and publishing, and failure analysis.

Features:

 - Powerful, fast, and robust, while remaining easy to use.
 - Native, customisable sandbox implementations for common operating systems.
 - Parallel scan and build processes inside concurrent sandboxes.
 - Dynamic MAKE_JOBS and WRKOBJDIR scheduler for optimal performance.
 - Ratatui-based user interface.
 - Simple, flexible, and extendable Lua-based configuration.
 - Easily support multiple branch builds or different OS targets.

Bob works out-of-the-box on NetBSD, Linux, macOS, and illumos.