2001-09-18:
  The whole architecture has been changed after a year: In order to be as
  generic as possible, autotools have been included, the directory
  structure has changed, and new functionality has been added by several
  projects.
	
2000-08-01:
  every subdirectory should include another subdirectory called 'test'
  just to make sure that the contents one adds can be tested.
  for example, the filter framework proposed by marco did not even compile.

2000-07-21: 
  added reference counting to the cimagebyte class.
  fiddle around a little bit - check if you can live with it or not.
  if it seems more or less ok, we can put it into cimageint as well.
  eric.

