What is Parts
Parts is an extension to SCons. It augments SCons by adding new concepts to aid with the development, organization and maintenance of large projects. Parts provides a standardized way to create plug-and-play components within or between products, saving time and development costs.
Parts was developed at Intel in an effort to simplify our own usage of SCons when building large software projects. Open sourcing Parts is in an effort to improve SCons and to continue to develop Parts for the benefit of the larger software development community.
Our Philosophy
- Any developer can build the product: A product should always be buildable by any developer, not just on a special box or by special people with special knowledge.
- Extend SCons, do not wrapper it: Instead of making a tool that hides the use of SCons, we use the ability of SCons to extend logic and functionality naturally. This means we use SCons as is, but get some extras for free. It also means the ideal build functionality of SCons should work as documented and our new logic should work on top of this.
- Help make SCons better: Strive to help show new ideas that can be moved into SCons to improve the extensibility and usefulness of SCons as a build platform.
Documentation (This is Draft quality currently)
Getting Started Guide (Examples that are used in the document can be checked out from SVN or downloaded from the download section)
- Read as PDF (updated 12-4-09)
User Guide
- Read as PDF (updated 12-4-09)
Related resources
Projects that use Parts with SCons
