common makery into Makefile.common, add CONFLICTS for each package
referring to the others, as for now the manpages will conflict.
TODO: Use ALTERNATIVES system? How to handle manpages?
Many bug fixes and some feature/documentation enhancements. The
web site goes into this in much detail; also, see CHANGES.txt
and RELEASE.txt in the source distribution.
Also, see the change to patch-aa which ensures we use ${PKGVERSION_NOREV}
to generate the version for the installation where appropriate.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Collection. The 0.96.9x releases will eventually become scons 0.97, but
the stable release is still 0.96.1 available in devel/scons. However, some
pacakges might need the newer capabilities.
SCons is an Open Source software construction tool--that is, a build tool;
an improved substitute for the classic Make utility; a better way to build
software.
