Prescriptions:

A Language for Describing
Software Configurations

by
Jim Thornton
[email protected]

Technical Report 94-18
June 1994

Abstract

Automation of software configuration management is an important practical problem. Any automated tool must work from some specifications of correct or desired configurations. This report introduces a language for describing acceptable configurations of common systems, so that automated management is possible. The proposed language is declarative, while at the same time there are efficient algorithms for modifying a system to conform to a specification in many cases of practical importance.

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