Bridges

Résumé du livre

Abstract: "Vesta is a highly flexible configuration management system that supports large-scale development. Vesta provides a repository ofimmutable objects and a functional programming language for writing concise yet complete descriptions of configurations. A Vesta bridge is a set of related functions and data types provided by tool builders to a Vesta environment. For instance, a C bridge might include a function for compiling C sources and a function for linking compiled C sources into executable images. Vesta has supported development on a significant scale. The Vesta prototype included several low-aspiration bridges that encapsulated existing tools without modification; these bridges were straightforward to write.