$Id: README,v 1.10 2000/09/21 03:16:53 knight Exp $

Cons is a Perl-based make replacement.  It is not compatible with make,
but has a number of powerful capabilities not found in other software
construction systems, including make.

This package contains a development release of Cons and its documentation.
Development releases are intended for advanced features and quick delivery
of bug fixes.  If you are looking for the latest stable release, look
for an even-digit minor version number (2.0.x, 2.2.x, etc.).

A related package (cons-test) contains a portable test suite for Cons,
plus a wrapper script and supporting modules for executing the tests.
You do not need this other package to use Cons.

You will need Perl 5.002 or better and the Perl Digest::MD5 module,
available from CPAN.

Cons is known to work on a variety of platforms: it's in production
use on versions of FreeBSD, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIX and
Windows NT.

Documentation is supplied in POD format (thanks to Ulrich Pfeifer).

A cons discussion group, cons-discuss@gnu.org, has been created.  If
you wish to subscribe, send mail to cons-discuss-request@gnu.org with
the word "subscribe" in the BODY of the message. Please send all comments,
requests, complaints, etc. to the mailing list.

Cons is maintained by members of the cons-discuss mailing list.

The official cons web site is http://www.dsmit.com/cons

An article about Cons appeared in The Perl Journal, issue #9, Spring 1998.