The Carnegie Mellon Environment Maintenance Tool

The Environment Maintenance Tool (EMT) was developed as a control mechanism for software development at Carnegie Mellon. It allows developers to create and maintain their own development areas. Using Depot, EMT also ensures that as developers release their software for general use that all naming conflicts with other sofware collections must be resolved.

Many of the operations that EMT allows developers to perform would normally be limited to system administrators. In order to avoid this, EMT checks the user's authentication and then communicates with an ADM server to perform the requested operations on behalf of the user. In this way, developers are allowed access to a limited subset of the system administrator's privileges and so system administrators are freed from almost all of the chores involved in supporting software development.

EMT Papers

EMT Released Versions

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