4 Maintainer: Moshe Zadka <moshez@debian.org>
5 Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 5.0.0), python-dev (>> 2.7)
6 Standards-Version: 3.5.6
10 Depends: python (>> 2.7)
11 Description: A replacement for Make
12 SCons is an Open Source software construction tool--that is, a build
13 tool; an improved substitute for the classic Make utility; a better
14 way to build software. SCons is based on the design which won the
15 Software Carpentry build tool design competition in August 2000. SCons
16 "configuration files" are Python scripts that call an API to establish
17 dependencies and specify how targets are built. SCons maintains a global
18 view of all dependencies in a tree, and can scan source (or other) files
19 for implicit dependencies, such as files specified on #include lines.
20 SCons uses MD5 signatures to rebuild only when the contents of a file
21 have really changed, not just when the timestamp has been touched.
22 SCons supports side-by-side variant builds, and is easily extended with
23 user-defined Builder and/or Scanner objects.