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:Not usable for internet collaboration

[[Xorian]]

That's not the way you would use it for collaboration. The NFS interface is not intended for wide-area access, only for clients within an installation (which can be as small as one system).

The right way to use it is for each contributor to run their own Vesta repository and use Vesta's replicator to keep up to date with other repositories (such as a central master). Vesta's checkout tool automatically contacts the master repository, even if it's remote, and its checkin tool replicates the checked-in version back to the master repository.

We already have several users who work this way, one even running their Vesta repository at the other end of a 56k dialup line.

(BTW, I'm the current maintainer, the one who did much of the work of getting it ported to Linux and released.)