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+# scone: Server CONfiguration Engine
+
+Scone is a tool for configuring servers (or even other computers).
+
+The idea is that you write a declarative configuration using Scone Menu Language (.scoml) files and run `scone` on it.
+
+Scone will, ideally speaking, do whatever is necessary to bring your declarative configuration into reality.
+
+You can track your configuration in `git`, for example, and should be able to re-apply this to your server whenever you need to recreate it (or update it!).
+
+
+Scone tries to be quick, owing to the fact that iterative development is more engaging and productive.
+To do this, Scone runs multiple recipes (jobs) in parallel (Scone has a fairly rich dependency tracking system to allow ordering recipes fairly intuitively to allow this). Scone also caches outcomes of recipes, so a small change to the configuration does NOT need to re-execute all recipes afterwards.
+
+
+Scone is currently alpha-grade software; the author uses it to configure their servers (fully), mobile phone (mostly fully) and laptop/desktop computers (partially).
+
diff --git a/contrib/install_scone.sh b/contrib/install_scone.sh
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 pyvenv='~/.scone/venv'
 remote=$1
-version='0.1.0'
+version='0.2.0'
 
 # create a source distribution
 python3 setup.py sdist
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ URL = "https://librepush.net/project/scone"
 EMAIL = "rei@librepush.net"
 AUTHOR = "Olivier 'reivilibre'"
 REQUIRES_PYTHON = ">=3.7.0"
-VERSION = "0.1.0"
+VERSION = "0.2.0"
 
 # What packages are required for this module to be executed?
 REQUIRED = [