Gentoo Ebuild - Programming language

Gentoo Ebuild is a programming language created in 1999.

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An ebuild is a specialized bash script which automates compilation and installation procedures for software packages. The format was created by the Gentoo Linux project for use in its Portage software management system. Each version of an application or package in the Portage repository has a specific ebuild script written for it. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 1,476 Gentoo Ebuild repos on GitHub
Early development of Gentoo Ebuild happened in Gentoo Foundation
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Gentoo Ebuild
See also: (1 related languages) Bash
Read more about Gentoo Ebuild on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

 Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=6

DESCRIPTION="A classical example to use when starting on something new"
HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Basic_guide_to_write_Gentoo_Ebuilds"
SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomwij/files/wiki/hello-world-1.0.tar.gz"

LICENSE="MIT"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"

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