Duncan Macleod authored 2 years ago and Kipp Cannon committed 1 year ago

closes #1

- note that the matlab related scripts are still obsolete and trigger deprecation warnings.  not my problem.

- increase libtool version to 3.0.0 due to new MetaioTable structure definition

- only the native .rpm and .deb packages have been used for many years

- since this public structure's declaration will change in a backwards-incompatible way in the next release, might as well get rid of this cruft while we're at it.

- if somebody puts a "%" into the delimiter on the command line bad things happen.

- regarding nvals

- regarding dsave by deleting the code.  it shouldn't be needed, probably won't hurt.  "make check" passes.

the base64 codec we were using was GPL, which is compatible with metaio's
license *except* that metaio includes the code for a matlab extension
module.  the authors of metaio can choose to link their own code to matlab,
but doing it to someone else's GPL'ed code is a license violation.  luckily
I found a public domain codec, but it does less error checking so we loose
that.

- bump version to 8.4.0
- update daswg e-mail address
- remove obsolete check for size of size_t