[fontforge-users] Announcing Libspiro - version libspiro Beta_0v4

[Joe]

Spiro is the creation of Raph Levien, which simplifies the drawing of
beautiful curves. Libspiro is a shareable library that can be used by
programs to do the Spiro computations for you.

This is a pre-release before announcing an official ver 0.4.201507xx.
This Beta has everything expected to be in ver 0.4.201507xx when
it is announced. Target release date is July 1st, 2015.

Main improvements in this pre-release are fixes for libspiro to
install successfully across a greater variety of computer systems.
A more detailed explanation can be found by following the git
commits shown at: https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro

Building this release depends on you being able to run:
autoreconf -i
automake
before you can run the usual build instructions of:
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install

This Beta release remains numbered as version 0.3

To download a *.tar.gz or *.zip copy, please go to:
https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro/releases/tag/Beta_0v4

Files installed for this Beta_0v4 LibSpiro release are:
/usr/local/lib/libspiro.0.3.*

/usr/local/include/bezctx.h
/usr/local/include/bezctx_intf.h
/usr/local/include/spiroentrypoints.h
/usr/local/include/spiro.h

If you find problems with this Beta version that need improvement
or fixing, please report back soon so that they can be included in
version 0.4.201507xx.

Thanks,
Joe Da Silva

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