Scend - Simple Configuration EditiNg moDule  Copyright 1994,1995 W. Almesberger
------------------------------------------------- see file COPYING for details

Version 0.5 of Scend is only intended to give a general impression of
Scend's functionality and its appearance. The code isn't very clean yet,
no attempt has been made to systematically debug Scend, there's no
documentation, etc. Don't try to use this program for other than
demonstration purposes.

See doc/TODO for missing features.


Documentation
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The documentation is built by entering the directory doc and running make
there. For the DVI file only, type  make scend.dvi  for the ASCII output,
type  make scend.txt


Quick start
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Here are the quickest ways to try Scend:

  - make
  - src/scend demos/linux-1.1.80/description

or

  - make install
  - make demo
  - cd /usr/src/linux
  - make symlinks
  - /usr/sbin/kconf
  - make && make

Note that using the latest kernel supported by Scend will give you the
demo using largest set of features.


Known bugs and restrictions
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Many. See file doc/TODO for details. Especially the absence of summary
lines makes it very hard to find one's way through the settings.

"if"s have greatly complicated the code structure. They also have nasty
error handling (i.e. exit the program). But I think we'll have to live
with them ... especially when support for multiple system and bus types
moves in.

"set"s don't make the code prettier, either. I'm sure we'll need them
when configurations get a bit more complex. At the moment, they can be
used as poor man's lists. Demo should demonstrate their use.

Group-common configurations are now supported by Scend, but not by the
kconf script. I'd like the multi-platform guys to do a first case study
here.
