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The essential problems of software versioning and building transcend particular platforms and development environments. Nevertheless, concrete solutions to those problems are created for specific platforms and environments, and Vesta is no exception. The Vesta designers sought to address the central issues in a way that was minimally dependent on the environment, but inevitably there are dependencies of style, terminology, and implementation detail. This book presents Vesta in sufficient detail that these dependencies are visible, which therefore requires that the reader understand something of that dependent context.
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Heydon, A., Mann, T., Levin, R., Yu, Y. (2006). Essential Background. In: Software Configuration Management Using Vesta. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30852-4_2
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