For our June “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, we selected SCons, an open source software construction tool.
SCons is a build or make tool implemented in Python and is an easier, faster and more reliable way of building software. It offers several unique capabilities and features including: a modular design that lends itself to being embedded in other applications; a global view of all dependencies in the source tree; an improved model for parallel (“-j”) builds; and automatic scanning of files for dependencies, among many others.
SCons is available in three distinct packages, each for a different purpose:
– The scons package, the basic package to install SCons
– The scons-local package, which executes as a SCons standalone, out of a local directory
– The scons-src package, the complete source tree including everything used to package SCons and all of the regression tests.
SCons was previously voted Project of the Month in December 2014, where the SCons team spoke about the project’s developments and direction.
To know more about SCons, visit their website: http://www.scons.org/
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