What this is about.

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+Owen Shepherd did a splendid job on PDCLib after he took over the project
+from me in 2012. Locale support, multibyte and wide character support,
+thread support, ...
+
+When I got back into the project, and after a couple of "easy" changes
+and improvements, I realized that I did not understand the structure of
+Owen's PDCLib well enough to continue contributing, without a high chance
+of breaking things, or disrupting what Owen had done.
+
+So I returned to where I left off, and -- with the benefit of being able
+to look at Owen's implementation -- started to re-trace his steps.
+
+(Re-) implementing the functionality hopefully gives me a better under-
+standing of the inner workings.
+
+Whether I will eventually merge this branch back into default, just pick
+up again where Owen left off, or Something Else Completely, remains to
+be seen.
+
+Martin "Solar" Baute