Vesta EV8 swan floats into open source pool

FOLK WHO are past honorary members of the Digital Compaq Systems Research Center, and who worked on the very much lamented Alpha EV8 project have put the fruits of their software configuration management system into the open source pool.

The background to the release is that Vesta, which has its own web page here, was the answer to one problem the EV8 team wanted to address.

It needed, we understand, version control with the ability to call arbitrary sets of modules by name.

The Digital Compaq System Research Center had already developed a system like this, and Vesta met the EV8 team's needs.

It had to be for people who were, "extremely tired and cranky" and those who had little experience and seemed to fit developers' needs.

Here's what the Vesta folks told us today:

"Developed by the SRC folks as a configuration management system for large software development projects, it was applied to the development of EV-8's RTL and verification code. Stress tested over three years by more than 130 users (on both US coasts), the system was a vast improvement over the previously employed CVS/Make solution.

Vesta is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence ( here) and currently runs on Linux/x86, Linux/Alpha and Tru64/Alpha platforms. The source is maintained within a globally accessible Vesta repository. See for more information on Vesta's many charms."