Open Source Application Packaging Software

a Java utility for comparing the contents of any two zip files. It can also be used to compare EAR files, WAR files, or JAR files.

This utility converts Motorola S-record files (namely .S19 files) to binary files and vice-versa. It has several useful features that allow full manipulation of record addressing and output file size.

This project has a lively SVN repository for build recipes, over 1000 F/OSS softwares are available. The tool "pkgbuild" is for building packages on Solaris 11/OpenIndiana from RPM-like spec files. The tool also runs on OmniOS. If you want, you can create new style IPS packages and old style SVR4 packages for Solaris 10. The tool is not updated frequently, but the following "build recipes" for pkgbuild is updated every day. For a few hundred build-recipes see the sub-project "spec-files-extra" or "SFE". We already have stacks of e.g. multimedia players mplyer/vlc or postfix/dovecot/cyrus-sasl/spamfiltering. But there is so much more to be added! Volunteers to the build-recipes are always welcome. Please ask on the mailing list or irc://irc.freenode.org/#pkgbuild Please proceed now with the link below and remember to visit "SFE" on the left and browse through the available packages list in SVN. Or go for one of the binary repositories with ready-to-use IPS packages.

Plugins for Maven 1.x (http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/) - manage all aspects of your project (tests, docs, distribution) from a single project descriptor! This project provides plugins that are not bundled with Maven due to differing licenses.

Lift Off Java Installer is an installer for Java applications.

Xinstaller is a program written in C for Linux. It will allow you to make an installer file for your programs. The user will have only to start the executable and to answer some easy questions(mostly "next" :)).

Enables conversion of an applet into a normal Java application/Windows/Linux executable.For this application, the target user is an applet developer. Once he has completed the applet development, he can use this application to create an executable file.

Build System for Java offers an enhanced build environment that ties together deployment instructions, environment configuration and source code as a releaseable entity. A new paradigm for configuration management!

BTS is a Build Template System designed for building packages for th common packing systems in use by current distributions based on a single XML package description. We are finally restarting development after a long break due to NeOS work.

COOK is a software build-automation tool made with a goal of letting you, the programmer, to utilize the most elegant and powerful programming language - Common Lisp - for managing your software builds. You write a recipe file which describes what objectives must be constructed. COOK will load and process this file, then produce either a regular Makefile or a Bourne Shell script, which will actually perform the task of building and installing your targets.

Darrt provides simple deployment packaging for database code, akin to that provided by JAR, WAR and EAR files in J2EE.

Dakota es un proyecto hecho en java para covertir un archivo jar, en un executables de windows.

DebToo - Debian powered from source. Portage-like configurability brought into Debian with the goodies known to Gentoo users: USE flags, optimised packages, hand picked patches, fine grained tweaking performance, inherted configurations.

LPML is the Linux Packaging Markup Language and is implemented with perl. LPML improves upon traditional fileglobbing schemes. Source repositories are rendered into RPMs, dpkgs, and many other methods of direct compilation and installation.

Yet another Java obfuscation tool. This one has a bit of a different twist, in that it can obfuscate native methods by generating a .h file which #defines the original method names to the obfuscated ones. Built with Apache BCEL.

With 'nixstaller' you can easily make installers for unix like systems. It will support several GUI frontends such as ncurses, Qt, GTK2 and FLTK.

RPM Builder serves the novice/newbie audience. It gives them an easy way to take small applications that only have tarred releases and build a simple spec file and resulting rpm file.

RPM Workshop is for the experienced/professional packager. This tool will give the packager GUI access to take a new tar file and create a spec file and RPMS or open an exsisting spec file for updating.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. This is a port of the RPM software, including rpmbuild and yum/APT-RPM, to Darwin and Mac OS X

A collection of utilities for working with SourceForge programmatically. The initial release is spearheaded by a programmatic interface to the File Release System.

Data Evolution for Java. Finch is a Data Transformation System based on JDBC and other Java blessed specifications. Finch is based on a component task architecture allowing users to create complex data manipulation jobs.

Java utility to easily manage the creation and management of WHATSNEW/CHANGES type files. Console aplication and Ant task are provided.

Need to package up your compiled program so that it can be install on a Windows or Unix machine? Use this Zip Package Maker. ZipPKG Maker lets you, Install, Uninstall, List and create Zip Packages. ZipPKG Maker is compatible with the output files from

gRpmBuilder is a POWERFUL yet easy-to-use graphical program that will create rpm files and srpm files with a simple interface.

makeutil is a set of portable public domain programs designed to support C/C++ projects. It provides tools for build operations outside of the normal compile/link pipeline. It is designed to be unobtrusively included directly in your own project.