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+With LWTOOLS 4.0, a substantial reorganization of the project has occurred.
+This document serves to explain the reasoning behind the various changes.
+
+The most obvious change is that the gnu auto tools have been eliminated.
+While they proved useful for initial distribution of the software,
+particularly for construction of the win32 binaries, they have since proved
+to add an unacceptable level of complexity to every aspect of development
+from merely tinkering with source files to doing complete releases. Thus,
+the auto tools have been ditched in favour of specific hand tuned help where
+required.
+
+The other substantial change is that the source code repository has been
+recreated from scratch. The old repository was full of cruft from various
+revision control systems that were used over the years (CVS, Subversion, and
+Mercurial). It was felt that starting a new Mercurial repository with a
+completely clean slate would simplify matters substantially. Thus, the old
+repository now serves as an archive.