bug from veox: fix for windows hosts files to not crash.
Make implicit casts explicit, document a lossy implicit cast.
Merge pull request #17 from evoskuil/develop

Make implicit casts explicit, document a lossy implicit cast.
remove duplicate file.
update version numbers to be consistent.
Remove dead comments.
Add missing source files to VS projects.
Make implicit cast explicit.
Merge pull request #21 from evoskuil/develop

Add missing files to VS build, make explicit cast.
next release is 3.0
Track previous stable release, not next version.

Note that previous v2.0 still has a bad tag string. `git describe`
works, however.

From http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

    It is exactly at the start of a release branch that the upcoming
    release gets assigned a version number—not any earlier. Up until
    that moment, the develop branch reflected changes for the “next
    release”, but it is unclear whether that “next release” will
    eventually become 0.3 or 1.0, until the release branch is started.
    That decision is made on the start of the release branch and is
    carried out by the project’s rules on version number bumping.

This is so if a critical bug is discovered for which the fix is still
compatible with the previous major release, the fix can be applied
to the master branch without bumping the major version, but bumping the
Z in X.Y.Z instead.
added NEWS file.
generate changelog using 'git log --oneline --decorate'
Update VS import props.
add a script for ChangeLog regeneration
ChangeLog regenerated
Merge pull request #22 from libbitcoin/2014_05_changelog

add a shell script for changelog regeneration, deals with #19
Merge pull request #23 from evoskuil/develop

Update VS import props.
rename LICENSE to COPYING (per autogen.sh complaining)
Revert to openbsd sha1, fix hash endianess tests, add compat.h.