retrieve the server host and port from environment to have a proper comaprison

…ons.

we have added now the support on the client to allow multiple servers connections

we use signal_status to send some information to the client about on-going requests

…ions' into release/2.8.0

# Conflicts:
#	source/clientserver/xdrlib.cpp

building pyuda wheels for windows and merging in upstream changes from main at release 2.7.6

…ug for double data in portablexdrlib for MSVC

* initial notes added to docs for installing clients

* completing manual build instructions for the uda client for all platformsv of interest in the documentation

* removing some old build instructions from readme.md and instead referencing updated instructions in the docs

* updating readme

* adding a new page 'api_changes' to the documentation

* Fix typos in api_changes.md

* Update client_installation.md