Getting ready for release 2.4-rc1
Updated the release procedure.
Small changes in announcement
Use std:min instead of fminl

Fixes build error on Windows with msvc.
Fix build error with gcc
Merge pull request #139 from cgohlke/patch-1

Use std:min instead of fminl
Merging Christoph Gohlke path for fminl -> min
Get rid of LOGDEBUG as it was meant to be used just during development of contains()
Added numexpr/win32 directory explicitly in MANIFEST.in
All the strings for new `contains` have to be bytes

Unicode strings are not supported yet.  See #121.
Getting ready for release 2.4-rc2
Added thanks to Christoph for patches for Win platforms.