[m-rev.] diff: fix order of HISTORY file

[Fergus Henderson]

Estimated hours taken: 0.25
Branches: main, release

HISTORY:
	Fix incorrect ordering.

compiler/notes/release_checklist.html:
	Update the instructions about maintenance of the HISTORY file
	to avoid this problem in future.
	
Workspace: /home/ceres/fjh/mercury
Index: HISTORY
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/HISTORY,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -d -r1.19 HISTORY
--- HISTORY	20 Nov 2002 05:31:44 -0000	1.19
+++ HISTORY	20 Nov 2002 07:50:38 -0000
@@ -1508,16 +1508,6 @@
 compiled itself using the MLDS back-end on 12 May 2000.
 
 
-Mercury 0.10.1, April 3rd, 2001
--------------------------------
-
-This is mainly a bug-fix release.
-
-There are however some new packages in the mercury-extras distribution:
-* lex: a lexical analyzer library for Mercury.
-* curs: a simplified binding to the ncurses/panel libraries for terminal I/O.
-
-
 Mercury 0.10, February 25th, 2001
 ---------------------------------
 
@@ -1854,3 +1844,13 @@
   enhanced features of Vim.  The command-line options to `mtags' have
   changed and Vim-style tags files are now output as the default (but
   will work with Vi as well).  Do `mtags --help' for more information.
+
+
+Mercury 0.10.1, April 3rd, 2001
+-------------------------------
+
+This is mainly a bug-fix release.
+
+There are however some new packages in the mercury-extras distribution:
+* lex: a lexical analyzer library for Mercury.
+* curs: a simplified binding to the ncurses/panel libraries for terminal I/O.
Index: compiler/notes/release_checklist.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/compiler/notes/release_checklist.html,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -d -r1.20 release_checklist.html
--- compiler/notes/release_checklist.html	19 Aug 2002 06:55:29 -0000	1.20
+++ compiler/notes/release_checklist.html	20 Nov 2002 07:52:25 -0000
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
      LIMITATIONS and BUGS files, and the compiler/notes/todo.html file.
      Don't forget to update the version number in RELEASE_NOTES for major
      releases.
-     The HISTORY file should include the NEWS files from previous releases.
+     The HISTORY file should include the NEWS files from previous releases
+     (reordered if appropriate -- the HISTORY file is in cronological
+     order whereas the NEWS file is in reverse cronological order).
 
 <li> Update the WWW documentation in the `w3' directory.
      Note that the sources for these HTML documents are in the files named

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