On 30/08/2011, at 12:13 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:31 +0100, Luke Daley wrote: >> Thanks Russell. > > Too many ls ;-)
Very sincere apologies for that. > >> I had a quick look and struggled to understand exactly what it is, but I'll >> dig deeper soon. > > Sadly, I think your reaction may have a lot to do with why not everyone > on the planet involved with C and C++ is using it all the time! > > The idea of Vesta (at least as I understand its use), is to be a build > and configuration management system that comprises a global database of > project source code and compiled items with local caches storing the > bits you use. So it's like a grand mix of Maven and Gradle but for C > and C++. > > I haven't used it myself, only had a couple of companies use of it > explained (not that well, and a few years ago) to me. If it had worked > as it was explained to me, then I think everyone working with C and C++ > would be using it -- and clearly they are not. However, that doesn't > mean it doesn't have a whole lot of good ideas that could be poached. Right, sounds like quite a novel concept. What makes it even more hard to grasp is that it's a VCS as well. I'll read through it in detail this evening with a nice scotch in hand. -- Luke Daley Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://gradleware.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
