[schilytools] schilytools-2022-09-XX feature preview

[Robert Clausecker]

Greetings!

Over the last months, a small team of contributors was busy working on
some initial cleanup and improvements on the schilytools code base.
A release is planned for 2022-09-18, the one year anniversary of Jörg's
final release.  I cannot promise to hit that date though.

Here's a preview of what is likely going to be in this release in no
particular order:

 - (done) the contributors for previous and future versions have been
   gathered into a new file CONTRIBUTORS
 - (done) the README and CONTRIBUTING files have been updated to the
   new git-based work flow
 - (done) various spelling fixes and improved messages
 - (done) bsh now supports ^L to clear the screen
 - (done) conversion of the project to git
 - (done) support for BLAKE2 in (lib)mdigest
 - (done) libmdigest now prefers __builtin_bswap32 over inline assembly
 - (done) LINKMODE defaults to dynamic for FreeBSD builds
 - (done) the configure test for #pragma weak has been fixed for clang
 - (done) C++WOPTS is honoured in SING, enabling exciting new C++ warnings
 - (done) libstreamar is now linked with libiconv if needed
 - (done) SING support for recent macOS has been fixed
 - (in progress) tools will support and may possibly default to ssh over rsh
 - (in progress) man pages and documentation will be updated to the new
   project page
 - (in progress) the build with gcc 2.7.2 on ULTIRX 4.4 will be fixed
 - (in progress) many warnings in the sunpro code base will be
   addressed, some bugs fixed
 - (in progress) symbol versioning may be enabled for FreeBSD
 - (planned) man2html will be deprecated in favour of Thomas Dickey's fork
   after he has integrated Jörg's changes.  Removal is planned for a future
   release.
 - (planned) unless we manage to obtain redistributable source, pxupgrade
   will be removed from the distribution
 - (maybe) do a full project history import from the SCCS files if we
   manage to obtain them.  It's in progress, but I can't say how long it
   is going to take.
 - ... your feature here

If you want to help, have bugs to report or features to request, please do
not hesitate to either send mail to this mailing list:

    https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de

or participate in our project on Codeberg:

    https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools

Patches are accepted both by email to the mailinglist and as pull
requests on the Codeberg project.

We also have the IRC channel #schilytools on the hackint and libera.chat
networks.  Join us there if you have any questions!

If you have previously reported an issue or sent a patch to Jörg and it
has not been processed, do not hesitate to send it again.  I do not have
access to Jörgs emails and do not know about any of these things.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker
Maintainer Schilytools

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