Curie

This latest release adds an experimental garbage collector for s-expression data, support for custom s-expression types, several fixes to icemake, better support for building Windows .dll files (with msvc++), (basic) support for IPv4/IPv6 networking for POSIX operating systems, and fixes to make curie work on Windows x86-64 (also using msvc++). Still missing is network support in general on Windows.

Not much changed regarding the API, just a few minor stability fixes. However, this release adds a port of both curie and icemake to Windows/x86, which works with MSVC++, Borland/Turbo C++, and Mingw/GCC. Carefully designed curie-only programs that do not use libsyscall should now work on Windows as well as Linux and Darwin. icemake should prove to be a very effective tool with which to write and port programs.

This release mostly ties up some loose ends, and does nothing spectacular. Icemake got itself a shiny new manpage, as well as the ability to install those. curie got some minor feature enhancements. libsyscall has been fixed to properly implement things based on socketcall() on Linux architectures that still use this interface.

This release fixes a lot of issues with curie-6. In particular, there have been a number of fixes to the regex code, including UTF-8 support, and to some of the I/O code. C++ support has been significantly improved, although curie++ has been mostly stripped out of the release itself. The documentation received a big boost as well, and icemake can now handle documentation in Tex and will use Doxygen when appropriate and available. Icemake has also been given the ability to create shared objects.

Apart from the regular bugfixes, this release adds
directory handling and regular expression matching
to the list of curie's features. Both new features
should also have gotten proper documentation and a
good batch of testing, and a couple of oddities
about the graph code have been fixed in the
process.