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Consfigurator is a system for declarative configuration management using
Common Lisp. You can use it to configure hosts as root, deploy services as
-unprivileged users and build disc images.
+unprivileged users, and build disc images.
Many or all of the good ideas here come straight from Joey Hess's Propellor_.
I'm working on Consfigurator mainly because I think Propellor is great and
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and extending Propellor.
.. Propellor_ https://propellor.branchable.com/
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+Portabiilty and stability
+=========================
+
+- **Consfigurator is still stabilising and so there may be breaking changes.**
+
+- No attempt is made to support Common Lisp implementations other than SBCL,
+ though portability patches are welcome.
+
+- No attempt is made to support running on Windows -- we eschew Common Lisp
+ pathnames in favour of simple strings with forward slashes as directory
+ separators.