[ANN] bitlib and rexlib split; end of Lua 4 support for rexlib

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

For the last few years I've been distributing the C libraries bitlib and 
rexlib, which provide respectively bitwise operations and regular 
expression support. Recently, Shmuel Zeigerman took over maintenance of 
rexlib; it is now a LuaForge project:

http://luaforge.net/projects/lrexlib/

Version 1.18, compared to my last version, release 16, contains both bug 
fixes for memory leaks, portability fixes to compile with more regex 
libraries, and extensions to the Lua API. Upgrading is therefore highly 
recommended. Thanks, Shmuel!

As a result, I have made a new release of bitlib, release 17. It is 
identical to release 16 except that rexlib is no longer included.

As usual, get it from:

http://rrt.sc3d.org/Lua


On a related note, I've continued to make the Lua 4 version of the 
libraries available, and to fix bugs in them. However, it seems that 
no-one is using it: at least in the last six months, no-one has downloaded 
the Lua 4 release. Also, I've not tried to backport Shmuel's fixes.

Hence I'd like to ask whether anyone is still interested in the Lua 4 
version of the libraries. If not, I will withdraw the Lua 4 version of 
rexlib on 1st October (bitlib is trivial to maintain). Of course, if 
anyone else is interested in maintaining the Lua 4 version of rexlib as 
part of the LuaForge project, I'd be happy for them to do so.

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