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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SCons - a software construction tool - Version 2.3.6 + Version 2.4.0 This is SCons, a tool for building software (and other files). SCons is @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ the latest version by checking the SCons download page at: EXECUTION REQUIREMENTS ====================== -Running SCons requires Python version 2.4 or later. There should be +Running SCons requires Python version 2.7.*. Currently it does not +run on the Python 3.x release. There should be no other dependencies or requirements to run SCons. (There is, however, an additional requirement to *install* SCons from this particular package; see the next section.) @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ provided Python-standard setup script as follows: By default, the above command will do the following: - -- Install the version-numbered "scons-2.3.6" and "sconsign-2.3.6" + -- Install the version-numbered "scons-2.4.0" and "sconsign-2.4.0" scripts in the default system script directory (/usr/bin or C:\Python*\Scripts, for example). This can be disabled by specifying the "--no-version-script" option on the command @@ -70,17 +71,17 @@ By default, the above command will do the following: making it the default on your system. On UNIX or Linux systems, you can have the "scons" and "sconsign" - scripts be hard links or symbolic links to the "scons-2.3.6" and - "sconsign-2.3.6" scripts by specifying the "--hardlink-scons" + scripts be hard links or symbolic links to the "scons-2.4.0" and + "sconsign-2.4.0" scripts by specifying the "--hardlink-scons" or "--symlink-scons" options on the command line. - -- Install "scons-2.3.6.bat" and "scons.bat" wrapper scripts in the + -- Install "scons-2.4.0.bat" and "scons.bat" wrapper scripts in the Python prefix directory on Windows (C:\Python*, for example). This can be disabled by specifying the "--no-install-bat" option on the command line. On UNIX or Linux systems, the "--install-bat" option may be - specified to have "scons-2.3.6.bat" and "scons.bat" files + specified to have "scons-2.4.0.bat" and "scons.bat" files installed in the default system script directory, which is useful if you want to install SCons in a shared file system directory that can be used to execute SCons from both UNIX/Linux and @@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ By default, the above command will do the following: -- Install the SCons build engine (a Python module) in an appropriate version-numbered SCons library directory - (/usr/lib/scons-2.3.6 or C:\Python*\scons-2.3.6, for example). + (/usr/lib/scons-2.4.0 or C:\Python*\scons-2.4.0, for example). See below for more options related to installing the build engine library. @@ -224,20 +225,26 @@ Check the SCons web site at: AUTHOR INFO =========== - -Steven Knight -knight at baldmt dot com -http://www.baldmt.com/~knight/ - -With plenty of help from the SCons Development team: - Chad Austin - Charles Crain - Steve Leblanc - Greg Noel - Gary Oberbrunner - Anthony Roach - Greg Spencer - Christoph Wiedemann +SCons was originally written by Steven Knight, knight at baldmt dot com. +Since around 2010 it has been maintained by the SCons +development team, co-managed by Bill Deegan and Gary Oberbrunner, with +many contributors, including but not at all limited to: + +- Chad Austin +- Dirk Baechle +- Charles Crain +- William Deegan +- Steve Leblanc +- Rob Managan +- Greg Noel +- Gary Oberbrunner +- Anthony Roach +- Greg Spencer +- Tom Tanner +- Anatoly Techtonik +- Christoph Wiedemann +- Russel Winder + +\... and many others. Copyright (c) 2001 - 2015 The SCons Foundation -src/README.txt rel_2.3.5:3347:d31d5a4e74b6 2015/07/31 14:36:10 bdbaddog |