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Just like the CMT Release Manager, the SCons Release Manager is split into several components. These components are the batch submission system, the workflow system, and the release manager system. Unlike the CMT Release Manager, the SCons Release Manager is not written in perl. It is written in C++ relying mostly on the Qt library. Additionally, it depends on the Boost Spirit library, and the stx-exparser library. The Qt library is used for most platform independent interactions. The Boost spirit and stx-exparser are used on the linux side only for linux components only (in particular, for a Workflow application only).

Qt

A major component of the SCons infrastructure is the Qt library. For linux and the mac the source code is obtained from the trolltech website and compiled. In both cases it's compiled as a static library. For windows the installation is a bit more complicated. The windows installation doesn't come with the mysql plugins pre-compiled. As a result it needs to be compiled after installing Qt for windows. From the trolltech webpage one needs to download the LGPL/Free version for windows. There are several choices to download. The appropriate one is the Framework Only version for Windows. This version is complied with mingw so the machine it's installed on will need mingw. The installer for Qt will take care of installing it but it should NOT be installed on any of the machines that are used by the ReleaseManager as SCons might get confused with mingw and visual c++ both installed.

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