[m-rev.] for review: update rotd information page

[Paul Bone]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 07:04:57PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> Update the ROTD information page.
> 
> w3/download/include/rotd.inc:
> 	Mercury is tested daily on Mac OS X machines.
> 
> 	Update the list of Windows version on which Mercury has been
> 	known to work to include 7 and Server 2008.
> 
> 	Bump the recommended version of GCC to 4.2.
> 
> 	Mention that clang can be used as an alternative C compiler.
> 
> 	Comment out the stuff related to lcc for the time being;
> 	I don't think its been tested for a very long time.
> 
> 	Update broken links.
> 
> 	Mention the C# backend and its requirements.
> 
> 	Comment out the stuff related to the old .NET backend.
> 
> Julien.
> 
> Index: download/include/rotd.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/w3/download/include/rotd.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.16
> diff -u -r1.16 rotd.inc
> --- download/include/rotd.inc	30 Nov 2009 03:01:18 -0000	1.16
> +++ download/include/rotd.inc	3 Oct 2011 07:56:52 -0000
> @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
>  <p>
> 
>  <ul>
> -    <li> x86/x86_64 machines running Debian Linux -    <li> x86
> machines running SuSE Linux +    <li> x86 and x86-64 machines
> running Linux +    <li> Apple Intel machines (both x86 and x86-64)
> running Mac OS X 10.5 and above
>  </ul>
> 
>  <p>

I'd be worried about saying OS X 10.5 and above.  When apple make a new version
of OS X it is likely to break things and people will read this page thinking
that we've tested Mercury on the new version of OS X even though it's only been
released for 2 hours.

I recommend giving a range of OS X version numbers that we have tested with.

> @@ -73,14 +73,11 @@
>  <p>
> 
>  <ul>
> -    <li> x86 machines running Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista.
> -    <li> x86/x86_64 machines running other versions of Linux
> -         (however, there are some known problems with the version of GNU C
> -	 that shipped with Red Hat Linux 7.0)
> +    <li> x86 machines running Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7,
> +         or Server 2008 R2.
>      <li> x86 machines running FreeBSD 3.0
Didn't we test on FreeBSD 8.x recently?  (merlot ran FreeBSD 8.x while you
where using it for testing.  It's currently running 9.0-BETA1).

Everything else is fine.

Thanks.

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