Toolpack. Final report, August 1, 1980-July 31, 1984
L. J. Osterweil, Lloyd D. Fosdick · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1985
The Toolpack project has produced a large configuration of tightly integrated tools comprising a numerical software development environment. As its participation in the Toolpack collaborative project, the University of Colorado created some major tool capabilities, devised and implemented Odin - an innovative tool integration system, and served technical coordinator during the early phases of the project. The combination of research, development and definitive evaluation which characterized our participation in the Toolpack project has been a uniquely challenging and stimulating opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art and the state of practice in the area of software tools and environments. Knowledge about tool integration has been significantly advanced through our development of Odin, and the widespread use of effective tools by an important software community will also be significantly advanced by our development of the Toolpack/IST prototype which has now given way to the distributed Toolpack/1 system.