Acknowledgements

First, many thanks to the great group of developers who dove in right from the beginning and have contributed the code and ideas to make SCons a success: Chad Austin, Charles Crain, Steve Leblanc, and Anthony Roach. Thanks also to those on the scons-devel mailing list who have contributed greatly to the discussion, notably including David Abrahams, Trent Mick, and Steven Shaw.

SCons would not exist today without the pioneering work of Bob Sidebotham on the original Cons tool, and without Greg Wilson's having started the Software Carpentry contest.

Thanks also to Peter Miller for: Aegis; the testing discipline that it enforces, without which creating a stable but flexible tool would be impossible; the "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" paper which led me to experiment with Cons in the first place.