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+Strongarm 2.x for Drupal 7.x
+----------------------------
+Strongarm gives site builders a way to override the default variable values that
+Drupal core and contributed modules ship with. It is not an end user tool, but a
+developer and site builder tool which provides an API and a limited UI.
+
+An example of such a variable is `site_frontpage`. In Drupal this defaults to
+`node`, which ensures that the front page gets content as soon as some exists,
+but for many Drupal sites this setting is simply wrong. Strongarm gives the site
+builder a place in the equation - an opportunity to set the default value of
+`site_frontpage` to something that makes sense for their site.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+Strongarm can be installed like any other Drupal module -- place it in
+the modules directory for your site and enable it (and its requirement,
+CTools) on the `admin/build/modules` page.
+
+Strongarm is an API module. It does absolutely nothing for the end user out of
+the box without other modules that take advantage of its API.
+
+
+How Strongarm works
+-------------------
+Strongarm uses the CTools export API to make entries in the system module's
+`variable` table exportables. Exportables are Drupal configuration objects that
+lead a dual life -- they may be *defaults* set by code exports in modules, they
+may be *overridden* if a user chooses to change the value in the database, or
+they may be *normal* if the configuration object lives only in the database but
+not in code. To learn more about exportables and the CTools export API, see the
+CTools advanced help on "Exportable objects tool."
+
+
+Exporting variables
+-------------------
+If you are a developer or site builder Strongarm gives you tools to export the
+settings of variables in your site database and manage any overrides to default
+values.
+
+To export variable values, you will need to enable either the [Features][1]
+module or the [Bulk Export][2] module provided by CTools (as of June 29, 2010
+you must use a recent checkout CTools `DRUPAL-6--1` in order to use Bulk Export
+with Strongarm). Features provides a UI for adding variable exports to a
+feature. Bulk Export provides a UI for generating defaults hooks with exported
+variables that you can add to your own modules. You do not need to enable both
+modules.
+
+
+Maintainers
+-----------
+
+- jmiccolis (Jeff Miccolis)
+- yhahn (Young Hahn)
+
+
+[1]: http://drupal.org/project/features
+[2]: http://drupal.org/project/ctools