Sophisticated concepts and complex tools tend to be rarely used in pratice, since they have to be intellectually mastered to be useful. The tools of Elego ComPact would like to be regarded as belonging to the tradition of small but beautiful.
Look into the tool box of a skilled workman and you will find hundreds of different tools tailored to different purposes. Likewise ComPact offers several small tools and concepts to master different aspects of the problem of software configuration management. It does not pretend to be the one single integrated solution you have dreamed of. ComPact extends the set of tools you already have accessible and tries to be as compatible as it can. Each tool has its special application domain and purpose. Each features simple concepts and use rather than sophisticated and complex ideas. And you will be surprised how nicely these tools integrate into your already established development environment of compilers, linkers, code generators etc.