Vesta Releases First GPL Version

Eugenia writes: "Many are the developers who prefer Perforce in favor of CVS. There is a new player in the field now though. It is called Vesta and it is a replacement for both CVS and 'make'. It handles source revision control and automated construction. It is the result of over 10 years of research and development at the Compaq/Digital Research Center. Just last August Compaq gave the 'ok' to GPL Vesta and since then the 4-member team worked hard to finish up the port to x86 Linux (prior to that, Vesta only worked on Alpha and Tru64 systems). Now, the first Free version is available for download. For a summary of some of the features that make Vesta interesting, see this page."

Comments

Re:CVS is King!

[Cuthalion]

If you're going to be using it through the CVS protocol, you might as well just use CVS - you're not exposing any new features or anything (such as filesystem integration, automatic dependency detection, atomic multi-file checkins, password encryption, whatever else that might prompt you to not use CVS's crappy protocol).

CVS works "good enough" for that most important step - from no version control to some. This is much more significant than the differences between bad version control and good version control. It's gratis, it's libre, so a lot of people use it.

DOS used to be universal too. Aren't you glad we've moved on?

On the other hand, I'm certainly not going to switch anything over to Vesta until it has been ported the OS I do my development under! Until then, I heartily recommend TortoiseCVS.