- finished Nastran BDF implementation (read+write in all BDF formats:
  free field, small field & long field)
- improved UNV and Medit import
- added detection of bad vertex indices in all import routines
- fixed bug in 2nd order quad constructor

- done rewriting second order algo

- small optimizations here and there to speed up the vertex array creation
  (we should get rid of List_Add & co)

moved most OS-dependent functions in OS.cpp

characteristic lenghts, that would lead to HUGE meshes (this is one
of the most common causes for erroneous bug reports on the mailing list)

remove obsolete BGM structure

removing dead code

rewrote the smooth normal routines:

- the averaging is now done by clusters, which is much better for
  geometries that have sharp edges  (it's a little slower, but the
  visual results are much better)
- there is now only a single smooth normal container in the mesh
  (instead of one per surface)

- new button under the graphic window to temporarily disable mouse
  selection (speeds-up redrawing of very large models + permits to
  rotate/zoom-in a model in selection mode even when the whole screen
  is full of selectable entities--e.g. a surface mesh)

- new "lasso" selection mode (to select entities using the same kind
  of lasso as the lasso zoom: just Ctrl+click, then drag the mouse in
  selection mode; the shortcuts are the same as for the lasso zoom)

- it is now possible to unselect entities using the middle mouse button
  (only for the creation of physicals at the moment; not sure if it's
  useful in the other cases)

- new button in visibility browser to invert the current selection
  (very useful e.g. when multiple physical entities are associated
  with a given elementary entity, in order to "peel" away the model
  when adding new physicals; cf. philou)

- changed meaning of Escape shortcut (cancel lasso or toggle mouse
  selection) + restore standard fltk Escape handling for all dialog
  windows

- updated copyright string

- new mesh label mode (coordinates); all label types are now also
  available for mesh vertices

- added option in 'Print Option' dialog to disable printing of help
  strings

- added a comment string with the date when creating a new file

- new snapping grid for adding points in the GUI

make it possible to add second order vertices for a mesh read from
a file (without cad)

use it now with -partition N for N partitions
only works with tets and triangles
output should be added (useless for now)

Removed the last bits of the "Discrete Surface/Line" stuff.

Gmsh can now simply read a .msh file, and use it as the boundary mesh
of a 3D mesh. For an example on how to do this, cf.
demos/sphere-discrete.geo.

This complements nicely the STL remeshing stuff: Gmsh can now
for example very easily be used to extrude surface meshes that
come from other tools.

make full-quad algo work for non-plane surfaces

fixed full-quadrangle recombine algo:

- run globally, not for each surface
- assign entities to elements
- split line meshes
- correctly re-tag vertices as 1st order
- plug memory leaks

add num of physical groups in stat window

polih previous commit

copyright update

This patch fixes an old design flaw in the post-processing module,
namely that we used a list of Post_View objects instead of a list of
pointers to Post_View objects in CTX.post.list.

This had many annoying consequences, in particular the fact that we
needed to be extra careful every time the list was reallocated (as
pointers to the list elements would become invalid).

I tried very hard to change the code everywhere it should be changed,
but I might have missed something. Please let me know if you see
anything suspicious (like a crash when you duplicate/remove/combine/...
post-processing views).

The "Simplex" class is now derived from a new class "SimplexBase",
which contains only pointers to the nodes, and none of the other stuff
necessary for the actual mesh generation.

All the input/output/display routines have been rewritten in terms of
SimplexBase: this provides a gain of almost 50% in memory when you
just load meshes from .msh files to do visualization stuff, instead of
actually generating the mesh.

Don't call Mesh_Quality() in GetStatistics()

added optimization hooks in the interface (GUI + comamnd line)

We can now use Netgen's optimization pass on our own Delaunay meshes. It seems
to work pretty well on small examples, but it definitely requires more
testing :-)