[bsder]

Did scons finally get a little less opinionated?

It used to be that scons really forced you to use subsidiary SConscript child files for anything more complicated than a couple files in a single directory instead of being able to lump it all into a single SConstruct.

[cjhanks]

I think that was quite long ago. Yes, `SCons` can fit into a single file if you so choose. But its behavior under recursive builds (with nested directory structure) is far more predictable than most build systems I have seen.