Vesta (Software configuration management)


Vesta is a software configuration management system developed in the 1990s.

History

Vesta was developed by researchers at the Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California.
The language for Vesta was first published in 1993.
Vesta used a declarative approach to specifying configuration dependencies. A second version was implemented around 1998.
Vesta was released by Compaq after it acquired DEC, under the GNU Lesser General Public License in 2001.
Vesta features include:
Vesta is used by Intel for microprocessor development projects. They employ developers who actively work on the maintenance and development of Vesta.
Drawbacks include:
A short book about Vesta was published several times through 2011.