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About the xPack flex

The project

The xPack flex project is part of the xPack Reproducible Build Framework and is hosted on GitHub as xpack-dev-tools/flex-xpack, part of the xPack Binary Development Tools.

This project currently functions as a supplementary tool for building the main xPack Development Tools. Since these tools are exclusively built on macOS and GNU/Linux, to reduce maintenance efforts, for now there are no Windows binaries. However, the project is versatile and can be used in any builds; if necessary, Windows binaries can be added in future releases.

Project history

The project was created in August 2023.

August 2023

The first xPack flex release was v2.6.4-1, but it was soon deprecated, due to the absolute paths used in the generated perl scripts, requiring post-install actions, not yet supported by xpm.

August 2024

The project underwent a comprehensive restructuring. To streamline the top package.json by showcasing only user-related definitions and concealing build-related ones, all build-related files were relocated to the build-assets folder. Furthermore, the development Git branch was renamed to xpack-development for enhanced clarity.

The web site

In September 2024 the website content was added in the website folder, as an instance of the Docusaurus template. Additionally a GitHub Action was added to automatically publish the site upon any pushes to the website Git branch.

The author

This project is currently maintained by Liviu Ionescu (ilg-ul), a senior computer engineer, with expertise in C++/C embedded systems, RTOSes, build tools, operating systems, compilers and Internet technologies.

He can be reached at <ilg@livius.net>. Please note, this email address is provided as a courtesy. For all correspondence related to the xPack flex project, kindly use the project support page).