* prepare to release
motivation: the sswg voted to adopt the API. this is to prepare to a release
changes:
* rewrite readme
* add API docs
* add utilitiy scripts and docker setup for CI
* adjust linux tests
motivation: it's very beneficial for the protocols to use functions with concrete types because then there's no need for specialisation. At compile time, the compiler can often not know what concrete type will be used so it needs to create a 'generic at runtime' version of the function. If however all functions on the protocol do not use generics, there's no need for a 'generic at runtime' version of the function
changes:
* change CounterHandler::increment to take Int64 instead of <DataType: BinaryInteger>
* change RecorderHandler::record to take Int64 and Double instead of <DataType: BinaryInteger> and <DataType: BinaryFloatingPoint>
* adjust example and test implementation
* adjust docs
motivation: address feedback from community, prepare for moving api to official repo
changes:
* add reset method to counter
* do not force the user facing metric object to implement the mteric handler protocol. this was done for convinience and confuses matters
* adjust tests
* fix a few typos