Editing SCons (section)

== History ==
The ''Cons'' software construction utility, written in the [[Perl]], was created by Bob Sidebotham in 1999.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dsmit.com/cons/ | title = Cons | type = web site | publisher = DSMit | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20000815211359/http://www.dsmit.com/cons/ | archive-date = 2000-08-15 }}.</ref> It served as a base for the ''ScCons'' build tool, a design which won the [[Software Carpentry]] project SC Build competition in August 2000.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://lwn.net/2000/0810/a/sc-second-round.php3 |title= Software Carpentry Design Competition Second Round Results Config, Build, and Track categories|date=2000-08-04|first=Alex|last= Samuel|access-date= 2012-10-29}}</ref>  ScCons was the foundation for SCons.

SCons inspired the creation of [[Waf (build system)|Waf]], formerly known as ''SCons/BKsys'', which emerged in the [[KDE]] community. For some time, there were plans to use it as the build tool for KDE 4 and beyond, but that effort was abandoned in favor of [[CMake]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/188693/|title=Why the KDE project switched to CMake – and how (continued)|last=Neundorf|first=Alexander|date=21 June 2006|publisher=LWN | access-date =21 July 2009}}</ref>

Notable projects that use SCons (or used it at one time) include: [[The Battle for Wesnoth]],<ref>{{cite web| url = http://wiki.wesnoth.org/CompilingWesnoth#Building_with_SCons | title =CompilingWesnoth|access-date= 2011-04-11 | work = Wiki | publisher = Wesnoth}}</ref> [[Battlefield 1942]],{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} [[Doom 3]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/README.txt | publisher = id Software | title=README.txt | access-date= 2015-05-13}}</ref> [[FCEUX]],<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.fceux.com/web/download.html | publisher = FCEUX | title = Downloads | access-date = 2017-04-25}}</ref> gem5,<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.gem5.org/ | title = Gem5}}.</ref> [[gpsd]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3089| work = ESR | publisher = iBiblio | title= SCons is full of win today|date = 2011-04-05 | access-date=2011-04-11}}</ref> [[GtkRadiant]],<ref>{{cite web| publisher = QE radiant | url= http://www.qeradiant.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/GtkRadiant/trunk/COMPILING |title=Developer documentation for GtkRadiant 1.6.0 (Zeroradiant)| date= 2008-06-30 | format = Trac | access-date = 2009-12-28}}</ref> [[Madagascar (software)|Madagascar]],<ref>{{cite web | publisher = Ahay | work = Wiki | url= http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Installation#Installation_from_source |title= Installation|date = 2011-02-26 | access-date = 2011-04-11}}</ref> [[Mixxx]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx#compiling | title=Mixxx/Compiling | website=[[GitHub]] | date=2014-08-26}}</ref> [[MongoDB]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Building+for+Linux#BuildingforLinux-Building|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090221220848/http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Building+for+Linux#BuildingforLinux-Building|url-status= dead|archive-date= February 21, 2009|work= MongoDB|title= Building for Linux|date= January 30, 2009|publisher= 10gen|access-date= February 8, 2011}}</ref> [[Nullsoft Scriptable Install System]],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nsis/NSIS/trunk/INSTALL?revision=6147&view=markup | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120711221146/http://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nsis/NSIS/trunk/INSTALL?revision=6147&view=markup | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-07-11 | title = INSTALL | work = NSIS | type = source code | date = 2011-05-28 | access-date = 2011-04-11 | publisher = Source forge }}</ref> [[OpenNebula]],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/repository/revisions/e20fb5c4c42960186cae7cdf353ba96e7a629703/entry/SConstruct | title = /SConstruct - OpenNebula - OpenNebula Development pages | publisher = OpenNebula Project | access-date= 2016-01-09}}</ref> [[VMware]],{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}, [[Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory]],<ref>{{cite web|url = https://github.com/id-Software/Enemy-Territory/blob/master/README.txt | publisher = id Software | title = README.txt | access-date = 2017-04-25}}</ref> [[XORP]] and MCA2,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://mca2.org/ |title= Modular Controller Architecture|publisher = Research Center for Information Technology (FZI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)}}</ref> [[openpilot]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/commaai/openpilot|title=openpilot Github repository|website=comma.ai/|access-date=2021-05-10}}</ref> and [[Godot (game engine)|Godot]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/development/compiling/introduction_to_the_buildsystem.html|title=Introduction to the buildsystem — Godot Engine latest documentation|website=docs.godotengine.org|access-date=2019-08-19}}</ref>

.csig is the SCons Content Signature file format.