- deduplication of manufacturer strings
- at some places harmonizes the different length of separator lines within the same file, centers the words (as requested by hbelusca during review), harmonizes those lines to 74characters length each
- moving some strings that are not to be localized into the non-localization string section
- other minor formatting preferences coauthored by StasM
There is no need to compile our DLLs as shared libraries since we are
managing symbols exports and imports through spec files.
On my system, this reduces the configure-time by a factor of two.
