Re: please comment: more advertisement liked ?

[Brad Garcia]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Erich Waelde wrote:

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>  * History of the project?

Developed by Bob Sidebotham at FORE Systems in 1996 to replace an aging
and error-prone "make" build system.  It was soon released to the public
under a BSD-like license.  Since then, ownership has been transferred
to GNU, the license is now GPL, and several companies and individuals
are using it as their build system.

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>  * Plans for the close and distant future?
> 
>    There is a substantial TODO list
> ??? I looked into the cons-2.3.0 TODO list. Is this uptodate ?
> ??? Is some of this stuff already built in ?
> ??? 
> ??? parallel Cons ?
> ??? modular Cons ?
Good place to mention Scons?

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>  * Anything you would like to see mentioned?
> 
>    Cons has a sibling ``SCons'', which is written in python. That was
>    written by Steven Knight 
> ??? correct?

Yes - http://www.scons.org/faq.html#SS_5_1

>    and is a part of the software carpentry project.
> ??? links?  documentation?

http://www.scons.org  (google is your friend!)


Brad Garcia