* Common code extracted to Python directories.
* Read ~/.scons file for scons environment defaults.
* Override scons settings with shell environment variables.
* New "tags" for debug, nodebug, optimize, nooptimize builds.
* Universal platform detection.
* Default value of environment variables set through prefix dictionaries.
* Check for correct Boost value and fail otherwise.
* Extract git describe --tags into a preprocesor variable, -DTIP_BRANCH
* More colors - blue for unchanged defaults, green for changed defaults, red for error.
* Contain unit tests for non-obvious stuff.
* Check to see that boost libraries have been built.
* Right now, we accept both .dylib and .a versions but it'd be easy to enforce .a only.
* is_contiguous_hashable trait identifies optimizable types
* hash_append() function overloads for basic types:
- scalars, floats
- array, C array
- pair, tuple
- boost array and tuple (if configured)
* Provided Spooky hash wrapper for use with hash_append
* Use hash_append in hardened_hash and other places
* New Utility meta functions for working with variadics:
- static_and
- static_sum
* Added type_name utility function for diagnostics
* hash_metrics suite of functions to evalulate hash functions
* Test suites to measure hash function performance
* Various fixes
