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Mountain View, CA, March 2, 2005 — Electric
Cloud, the software build infrastructure company, today announced
that the company has sponsored the creation of the GNU Make Standard
Library (GMSL). Aimed at providing a common set of tools for all
users of GNU Make, the GMSL was created by Electric Cloud Chief
Scientist John Graham-Cumming and is an invaluable tool for GNU
Make developers and a foundation that simplifies the creation and
maintenance of complex build environments.
Until now, when developers wished to create a complex Makefile
they were often forced to code, from scratch, common functions,
or search the Internet for snippets of GNU Make code that could
assist them. Now, with the GMSL, GNU Make developers have a single
free collection of functions implemented using native GNU Make functionality.
The GMSL includes list and string manipulation, integer arithmetic,
associative arrays, stacks, debugging facilities and more.
“Having an efficient build process is at the heart of building
complicated pieces of software, but creating the necessary Makefiles
can be daunting,” said John Graham-Cumming, Electric Cloud
Chief Scientist. “We believe that making the GMSL available
as free software, and opening its growth to the community at large
will, as with other open source projects, lead to greater efficiencies,
more excitement among programmers and better software products for
everyone. At Electric Cloud it is our core mission to improve and
accelerate build processes and we feel that the GMSL is just one
of the ways we can do that.”
Electric Cloud Accelerates Builds
Electric Cloud 2.1 is for medium-to-large software development teams
unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.1 accelerates
builds 10 – 20 times by distributing the software build in
parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard
servers.
At the core of Electric Cloud 2.1 is Electric Make, which is plug-compatible
with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be rapidly
deployed with little or no change to existing tools or environments.
In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric
Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency management system
that captures perfect dependency information by monitoring all files
accessed during a build. Electric Cloud 2.1 records and re-uses
build dependency information, minimizing the Makefile maintenance
required to achieve and maintain build performance.
The GMSL is released under the General Public License and is hosted
on SourceForge (http://gmsl.sourceforge.net).
About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering
technologies that improve the software development process. The
Company was founded to addresses the build related frustrations,
delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software development
team endures. Electric Cloud makes products that development teams
use to reduce costs, shorten time-to-market, and improve quality
and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud 2.1 is currently being
deployed at several of Silicon Valley’s most widely recognized
technology companies. Based in Mountain View, California, Electric
Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture
Partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact
Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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