The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...
The Nix software deployment system is based on the paradigm of transparent source/binary deployment: distributors deploy descriptors that build components from source, while clien...
Safely updating software at remote sites is a cautious balance of enabling new functionality and avoiding adverse effects on existing functionality. A useful first step in this p...
Binary component-based software updates that are efficient, safe and generic still remain a challenge. Most existing deployment systems that achieve this goal have to control the c...