Several CASE tools (mainly code generators like the TAC described
below) have been created
for parts of VISTA. As system-independence and portability is a major
design goal of VISTA, a software configuration management utility
has finally been implemented as consistent
part of the framework's base system.
Vienna MAKE (VMAKE)
is
designed as a monolithic
self-contained tool and is entirely based on the very same XLISP
interpreter which is also used as basis for the task level
implementation.
It needs only compiler, linker,
and archive maintainer and overcomes all the
disadvantages and limitations of make-based solutions.
An application example of VMAKE is given in Section 8.