[m-rev.] for post-commit review: update Windows README file

[Julien Fischer]

For post-commit review.

Update the README file for Windows.

README.MS-Windows:
 	Update the lists of Windows versions we have tested on.

 	Mention that we don't actively support Windows 95, 98 etc.

 	Mention that a Unix emulation environment is not required
 	to use Mercury on Windows; only build it.

Julien.

Index: README.MS-Windows
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-Windows,v
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diff -u -r1.20 README.MS-Windows
--- README.MS-Windows	4 Oct 2005 10:34:36 -0000	1.20
+++ README.MS-Windows	10 Jan 2011 04:52:58 -0000
@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
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+This file documents the port of Mercury to MS Windows.

-MERCURY ON WINDOWS
+-----------------------------
+Supported versions of Windows
+-----------------------------

-Mercury has been ported to MS Windows.
-We've tested the port on Windows XP SP2,
-but it should work on Windows 95, 98, ME 2000 and NT.
-We don't have any plans for a port to Windows 3.1.
-
-The Mercury build process makes use of a number of Unix tools such as
-sh and make.  This means that a Unix emulation environment is required
-to build Mercury on Windows.
+Mercury has been tested with the following versions of Windows:
+
+    * Windows XP SP3
+    * Windows 7
+    * Windows Server 2008 R2
+
+It should also work with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista but we have
+not tested it with those.
+
+In the past Mercury worked with Windows, 95, 98, ME, 2000, and NT but we no
+longer actively maintain support for those versions.
+
+
+---------------------------
+Building Mercury on Windows
+---------------------------
+
+The Mercury build process requires the use of a number of Unix tools such as sh
+and make.  This means that a Unix emulation environment is required to build
+Mercury on Windows.

  Two such environments are supported:

@@ -24,4 +38,5 @@
  README.MS-VisualC for instructions on how to build Mercury with the
  MS Visual C compiler.

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+NOTE: while a Unix emulation environment is required to build Mercury on
+Windows, one is NOT required to use Mercury on Windows.

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