[IRCServices Coding] Services 5.0 alpha 15 released

[Andrew Church]

     Services 5.0 alpha 15 is out at the usual place.  No major functional
changes in this release, but a whole bunch of reorganization and renaming
of files, and two new, completely untested meta-features: (1) RPM and .deb
binary packages, available at the same place as the tarball--try them out
and let me know of any problems, especially ones that blow up your box--
and (2) preliminary Win32 support via Cygwin; I'll let you all have a
flamefest over that one while I get some much-needed sleep.

     Oh, and I'm well aware that the HTML documentation for convert-db (the
new name for import-db) isn't done, so please don't bother sending mail to
tell me so. (:

Changes in version 5.0 alpha 15
-------------------------------
2002/01/21	Added preliminary Win32 support via Cygwin.  Assistance
		    from Andre Arruda <unblessed at ircd.com.br>
2002/01/21	Changed hostmask creation code to only mask off the last
		    part of an IP address, even for (former) class A/B
		    addresses.  Suggested by Sly.
2002/01/21	Fixed bug parsing incomplete user at host masks.  Reported by Sly.
2002/01/21	convert-db is now installed in data directory by make install.
2002/01/21	Renamed executable file from "services" to "ircservices",
		    and main configuration file to "ircservices.conf".
2002/01/21	"make spotless" target may now also be called as "distclean".
2002/01/21	Fixed cosmetic bug in "configuration file not found" error.
2002/01/21	Removed dependency on Perl for static compilation.
2002/01/20	Fixed bug in usage of `tar' program.
2002/01/19	Added NOQUIT support to trircd protocol module.  Suggested
		    by Yusuf Iskenderoglu <uhc0 at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
2002/01/19	Renamed import-db to convert-db.
2002/01/18	Made PTlink database importing more robust.
2002/01/18	Fixed bug causing import-db to fail with trircd databases.
		    Reported by Yusuf Iskenderoglu <uhc0 at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/