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+# Hydrilla builder
+
+This is the repository of the builder part of [Hydrilla](https://hydrillabugs.koszko.org/projects/hydrilla/wiki). You can find the repository of its server part [here](https://git.koszko.org/pydrilla/).
+
+Hydrilla builder is a tool to create Haketilo packages in serveable form. The information below is meant to help hack on the codebase. If you're instead looking for some noob-friendly documentation, see the [user manual](https://hydrillabugs.koszko.org/projects/hydrilla/wiki/User_manual).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+### Runtime
+
+* Python3 (>= 3.7)
+* click
+* jsonschema (>= 3.0)
+* reuse [optional]
+
+### Build
+
+* setuptools
+* wheel
+* setuptools_scm
+* babel
+
+### Test
+
+* pytest
+* reuse
+
+## Building & testing
+
+Build and test processed are analogous to those described in the [README of Hydrilla server part](https://git.koszko.org/pydrilla/about).
+
+## Running
+
+This package provides a hydrilla-builder command. You can use it to build the supplied example with something along the lines of:
+
+```
+mkdir /tmp/bananowarzez/
+hydrilla-builder -s src/test/source-package-example/ -d /tmp/bananowarzez/
+# Now, list the serveable package files we just produced.
+find /tmp/bananowarzez/
+```
+
+You might as well like to run from sources, without installation:
+mkdir /tmp/bananowarzez/
+./setup.py compile_catalog # generate the necessary .po files
+PYTHONPATH=src python3 -m hydrilla.builder -s src/test/source-package-example/ \
+	       -d /tmp/bananowarzez/
+```
+
+You can also consult the included manpage (`man` tool required):
+``` shell
+man ./doc/man/man1/hydrilla-builder.1
+```
+
+## Copying
+
+Hydrilla is Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Wojtek Kosior and contributors, entirely available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or later. Some files might also give you broader permissions, see comments inside them.
+
+*I, Wojtek Kosior, thereby promise not to sue for violation of this project's license. Although I request that you do not make use this code in a proprietary program, I am not going to enforce this in court.*
+
+## Contributing
+
+Please visit our Redmine instance at https://hydrillabugs.koszko.org.
+
+You can also write an email to koszko@koszko.org.