create README in markdown format

readmeC.txt → README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-====== C language readme for minpack ======
+C/C++ Minpack [![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.org/devernay/cminpack.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/devernay/cminpack)
+==========
 
 This is a C version of the minpack minimization package.
 It has been derived from the fortran code using f2c and
@@ -20,19 +21,24 @@ Manolis Lourakis -- lourakis at ics forth gr, July 2002
 	Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
 	Heraklion, Crete, Greece
 
-Repackaging by Frederic Devernay -- frederic dot devernay at m4x dot org:
+Repackaging by Frederic Devernay -- frederic dot devernay at m4x dot org
 
-version 1.3.3:
+The project home page is at http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/cminpack/
+
+History
+------
+
+* version 1.3.3:
  - continuous integration https://travis-ci.org/devernay/cminpack
 
-version 1.3.2 (27/10/2013):
+* version 1.3.2 (27/10/2013):
  - Minor change in the CMake build: also set SOVERSION.
 
-version 1.3.1 (02/10/2013):
+* version 1.3.1 (02/10/2013):
  - Fix CUDA examples compilation, and remove non-free files.
 
-version 1.3.0 (09/06/2012):
-- Optionally use LAPACK and CBLAS in lmpar, qrfac, and qrsolv. Added
+* version 1.3.0 (09/06/2012):
+ - Optionally use LAPACK and CBLAS in lmpar, qrfac, and qrsolv. Added
   "make lapack" to build the LAPACK-based cminpack and "make
   checklapack" to test it (results of the test may depend on the
   underlying LAPACK and BLAS implementations).
@@ -41,25 +47,25 @@ version 1.3.0 (09/06/2012):
   interface (i.e. 32-bits integer, vhereas the ILP interface uses 64
   bits integers).
 
-version 1.2.2 (16/05/2012):
-- Update Makefiles and documentation (see "Using CMinpack" above) for
+* version 1.2.2 (16/05/2012):
+ - Update Makefiles and documentation (see "Using CMinpack" above) for
   easier building and testing.
 
-version 1.2.1 (15/05/2012):
+* version 1.2.1 (15/05/2012):
 - The library can now be built as double, float or half
   versions. Standard tests in the "examples" directory can now be
   lauched using "make check" (to run common tests, including against
   the float version), "make checkhalf" (to test the half version) and
   "make checkfail" (to run all the tests, even those that fail).
 
-version 1.2.0 (14/05/2012):
+* version 1.2.0 (14/05/2012):
 - Added original FORTRAN sources for better testing (type "make" in
   directory fortran, then "make" in examples and follow the
   instructions). Added driver tests lmsdrv, chkdrv, hyjdrv,
   hybdrv. Typing "make alltest" in the examples directory will run all
   possible test combinations (make sure you have gfortran installed).
 
-version 1.1.5 (04/05/2012):
+* version 1.1.5 (04/05/2012):
  - cminpack now works in CUDA, thanks to Jordi Bataller Mascarell, type
    "make" in the "cuda" subdir (be careful, though: this is a
    straightforward port from C, and each problem is solved using a
@@ -69,20 +75,20 @@ version 1.1.5 (04/05/2012):
    library). Fix cmake support for CMINPACK_LIB_INSTALL_DIR. Update the
    reference files for tests.
 
-version 1.1.4 (30/10/2011):
-   - Translated all the Levenberg-Marquardt code (lmder, lmdif, lmstr,
+* version 1.1.4 (30/10/2011):
+ - Translated all the Levenberg-Marquardt code (lmder, lmdif, lmstr,
      lmder1, lmdif1, lmstr1, lmpar, qrfac, qrsolv, fdjac2, chkder) to use
      C-style indices.
 
-version 1.1.3 (16/03/2011):
-   - Minor fix: Change non-standard strnstr() to strstr() in
+* version 1.1.3 (16/03/2011):
+  - Minor fix: Change non-standard strnstr() to strstr() in
      genf77tests.c.
 
-version 1.1.2 (07/01/2011):
+* version 1.1.2 (07/01/2011):
    - Fix Windows DLL building (David Graeff) and document covar in
      cminpack.h.
 
-version 1.1.1 (04/12/2010):
+* version 1.1.1 (04/12/2010):
  - Complete rewrite of the C functions (without trailing underscore in
    the function name). Using the original FORTRAN code, the original
    algorithms structure was recovered, and many goto's were converted
@@ -94,30 +100,28 @@ version 1.1.1 (04/12/2010):
    cmake build, as well as an "uninstall" target, contributed by
    Geoffrey Biggs.
 
-version 1.0.4 (18/10/2010):
+* version 1.0.4 (18/10/2010):
  - Support for shared library building using CMake, thanks to Goeffrey
    Biggs and Radu Bogdan Rusu from Willow Garage. Shared libraries can be
    enabled using cmake options, as in;
  cmake -DUSE_FPIC=ON -DSHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF path_to_sources
 
-version 1.0.3 (18/03/2010):
+* version 1.0.3 (18/03/2010):
  - Added CMake support.
  - XCode build is now Universal.
  - Added tfdjac2_ and tfdjac2c examples, which test the accuracy of a
    finite-differences approximation of the Jacobian.
  - Bug fix in tlmstr1 (signaled by Thomas Capricelli).
 
-version 1.0.2 (27/02/2009):
+* version 1.0.2 (27/02/2009):
  - Added Xcode and Visual Studio project files
 
-version 1.0.1 (17/12/2007):
+* version 1.0.1 (17/12/2007):
  - bug fix in covar() and covar_(), the computation of tolr caused a
    segfault (signaled by Timo Hartmann).
 
-version 1.0.0 (24/04/2007):
-- Added fortran and C examples
-- Added documentation from Debian man pages
-- Wrote pure C version
-- Added covar() and covar_(), and use it in tlmdef/tlmdif
-
-
+* version 1.0.0 (24/04/2007):
+ - Added fortran and C examples
+ - Added documentation from Debian man pages
+ - Wrote pure C version
+ - Added covar() and covar_(), and use it in tlmdef/tlmdif

cminpack.vcproj

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@
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cminpack.vcxproj

@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@
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     <None Include="CopyrightMINPACK.txt" />
     <None Include="readme.txt" />
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   </ItemGroup>
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   <ImportGroup Label="ExtensionTargets">
   </ImportGroup>
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+</Project>

cminpack.vcxproj.filters

@@ -170,6 +170,6 @@
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     <None Include="CopyrightMINPACK.txt" />
     <None Include="readme.txt" />
-    <None Include="readmeC.txt" />
+    <None Include="README.md" />
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+</Project>

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@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@
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