[Olympus developers 504]: Olympus 2.6 rc1 available

[Alex Rudnicky]

This is a maintenance release. 

The main changes have to do with updating the build process and making it compatible with more recent computing environments. In particular it tries to accommodate changes in permissions policies; your build may need administrator privileges (the script will notify you accordingly).  These updates should not impact applications, but the testing has been limited to the ones that we have around so your experience may be different. Please notify us!

Some details:
* The script has been modernized to reflect changes in Win7, Perl and other tools.
* This version now works with  VS 11.0 and 12.0 and VS Express 2013 (the free IDE). It will not necessarily work with earlier versions. Note that VS Express is your best option. Olympus makes use of the compiler(s) and MSBuild; you do not need to use the MS IDE if you don't want to. 
* Olympus is now keyed to the most recent pocketsphinx and sphinxbase (0.8). 

Please give it a try and report any issues.

Thank you!
Alex