+# the get_implicit_deps() method changed between 2.4 and 2.5: now it expects
+# a callable that takes a scanner as argument and returns a path, rather than
+# a path directly. We want to support both, so we need to detect the SCons version,
+# for which no API is provided by SCons 8-P
+
+scons_version = tuple(map(int, SCons.__version__.split('.')))
+