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+__COPYRIGHT__
+
+Here you'll find plain text documentation of how to handle various SCons
+project procedures.  Files contained herein:
+
+change.txt
+        How changes are integrated, including generating and
+        distributing aedist change sets, and updating the CVS repository
+        on SourceForge.
+
+new-platform.txt
+        Steps to add a new Platform/*.py file.  This is probably out
+        of date.
+
+new-script.txt
+        Steps to add a new script or utility (like scons and sconsign)
+        to what we ship.
+
+new-tool.txt
+        Steps to add a new Tool/*.py file.  This is probably out of date.
+
+release.txt
+	Steps to go through when releasing a new version of SCons.
+
+subrelease.txt
+	Steps to go through when releasing a new subsidiary version
+	of SCons--for example, 0.95.1 after we've released 0.95.
+	So far, we've only done this to get some early testing on major
+	refactorings.