Erlport

- More robust message ID generation. Patch by Steve Cohen.

- Fixed `make test` on OSX by replacing `cp -l` with `ln`. Patch by
Johnlin.

- Fixed handling of arrays of integers by Ruby's `encode_term` function.
Patch by Johnlin.

- Removed upper version limits for Python/Ruby. It seems Python versions up
to 3.4.2 and Ruby up to 2.2.0 work without any other changes.

- `make test` now uses Python/Ruby installed on the system.

- More robust Python/Ruby version detection in case if ErlPort starts from
another process. Patch by Maxim V.

- Added Erlang R17 support for release and test scripts.
Reported by Mark A. Sheldon. Patch by Alexander Shorin.

- Added empty 'registered' option to erlport.app. This option can be needed
by some external tools. Patch by Daniel Kempkens.

- STDIN/STDOUT redirectors for Python in erlport.stdio modules now
implements full file object interface. Reported by Francesco Mosconi.

- Replaced proc_lib:spawn_link/1 with just spawn_link/1 because the former
reports expected process exits as crashes if SASL is enabled. Reported by
Sonic Gao.

- Fixed too restrictive checks for PYTHONPATH and RUBYLIB paths. Reported
by willemdj at GitHub.

- Added rebar.config. Patch by Chad DePue.

- Redesigned as Erlang application

- Added support for all recent Python versions

- Added support for all recent Ruby versions

- Added support for custom data types

- Added STDOUT redirection to Erlang

- Removed encoding of datetime.datetime() as {{Y, M, D}, {H, M, S}}.
It can be done in a high level code.

- Added encoding/decoding for fun M:F/A

- Added Port class and encoding/decoding for port() Erlang type

- Added python.erl Erlang module

- Added Reference class and encoding/decoding for reference() Erlang type

- Added Pid class and encoding/decoding for pid() Erlang type

- Updated Atom representation

- Fixed "Port._read_data() may read excess data"
(https://github.com/hdima/erlport/issues/2) (reported by Ivan Glushkov)

- Added erlport.org sources (Dmitry Vasiliev)

- Added exception handling (Dmitry Vasiliev)

- Updated README.rst with note about erlport.String class (Jacob Perkins)

- Encode datetime as a tuple of two tuples (Marko Mikulicic)

- Fixed a bug in the SMALL/LARGE_BIG_EXT decoding where an extra byte was
being added to the number if there was any data after the number
(Paul Bonser)

- Added 'compressed' keyword argument for Port (Dmitry Vasiliev)

- Encode None as atom none (Dmitry Vasiliev)

- Encode dict as a proplist (ordered by Python sort order, may be used as
orddict if keys are all the same type) (Bob Ippolito)

- Encode True, False as true and false (Bob Ippolito)

- Added support for encoding and decoding compressed terms (Bob Ippolito)

- Optimized encoding and decoding of big integers, general encoder
optimization hacks (avoid global lookups) (Bob Ippolito)

- Added support for big integers

- Added support for Erlang bitstrings whose length in bits is not a
multiple of 8

- Updated examples to work on Windows

- Now decode() doesn't return String objects, only lists. Use String as
wrapper if you expect Unicode string instead of a list.

- Optimized encoding for lists of bytes (integer in the range 0-255)

- Fixed encoding/decoding for integer values

- Fixed encoding for small Unicode strings with characters in range 128-255