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11 <title>Acknowledgements</title>
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40 I'm grateful to the following people
41 for their influence, knowing or not,
42 on the design of &SCons;:
48 <term>Bob Sidebotham</term>
52 First, as the original author of &Cons;, Bob did the real heavy
53 lifting of creating the underlying model for dependency management
54 and software construction, as well as implementing it in Perl.
55 During the first years of &Cons;' existence, Bob did a skillful
56 job of integrating input and code from the first users, and
57 consequently is a source of practical wisdom and insight into the
58 problems of real-world software construction. His continuing
59 advice has been invaluable.
66 <term>The &SCons; Development Team</term>
70 A big round of thanks go to those brave souls who have
71 gotten in on the ground floor:
79 through their general knowledge of software build issues in general
81 have made &SCons; what it is today.
88 <term>The &Cons; Community</term>
92 The real-world build problems that the users of &Cons;
93 share on the <command>cons-discuss</command> mailing list
94 have informed much of the thinking that
95 has gone into the &SCons; design.
97 Rajesh Vaidheeswarran,
98 the current maintainer of &Cons;,
99 has been a very steady influence.
100 I've also picked up valuable insight from
101 mailing-list participants
113 <term>Peter Miller</term>
119 influenced two aspects of the &SCons; design:
125 Miller's influential paper
126 <citetitle>Recursive Make Considered Harmful</citetitle>
127 was what led me, indirectly, to my involvement with &Cons;
129 Experimenting with the single-Makefile approach he describes in
130 <citetitle>RMCH</citetitle> led me to conclude that while it worked
131 as advertised, it was not an extensible scheme. This solidified
132 my frustration with Make and led me to try &Cons;, which at its
133 core shares the single-process, universal-DAG model of the "RMCH"
134 single-Makefile technique.
140 The testing framework that Miller created for his
141 Aegis change management system
142 changed the way I approach software development
143 by providing a framework for rigorous, repeatable
144 testing during development.
145 It was my success at using Aegis for personal projects
146 that led me to begin my involvement with &Cons;
147 by creating the <command>cons-test</command> regression suite.
154 <term>Stuart Stanley</term>
158 An experienced Python programmer,
159 Stuart provided valuable advice and insight
160 into some of the more useful Python idioms at my disposal
161 during the original <literal>ScCons</literal>; design
162 for the Software Carpentry contest.
169 <term>Gary Holt</term>
173 I don't know which came first,
174 the first-round Software Carpentry contest entry
176 but Gary's design for &Makepp;
177 showed me that it is possible to marry
178 the strengths of &Cons;-like dependency management
179 with backwards compatibility for &Makefile;s.
180 Striving to support both
181 &Makefile; compatibility and
182 a native Python interface
183 cleaned up the &SCons; design immeasurably
184 by factoring out the common elements
185 into the Build Engine.