The Adele configuration manager
Configuration management
An Architecture for a Construction System
ICSE '96 Proceedings of the SCM-6 Workshop on System Configuration Management
An Architecture for Post-Development Configuration Management in a Wide-Area Network
ICDCS '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '97)
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Deploying software to a user environment now involves much more than copying a few files. The deployer--software or human--must test for needed COTS components and modify various system files to establish the conditions needed for the new package. With the advent of "open source" distributions, deployment expands to encompass building the system as well as installing it. Describing this process for automated execution entails writing statements in languages for describing the environment, dependencies thereon, and requisite actions. We consider requirements for these three languages in light of our experience with developing an open source distribution at the Software Engineering Institute.