[m-rev.] for post-commit review: finalise 11.07.1 NEWS file

[Julien Fischer]

Branches: main, 11.07

Finalise the NEWS file for the 11.07.1 release.

NEWS:
 	Mention the bug-fixes for the csharp grade on Cygwin and
 	also that GCC also now works in C99 mode with Mercury.

README.Cygwin:
 	Update the list of Windows versions on which the Cygwin
 	port has been tested.

Julien.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.602
diff -u -r1.602 NEWS
--- NEWS	6 Feb 2012 13:57:32 -0000	1.602
+++ NEWS	15 Feb 2012 05:48:19 -0000
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
  NEWS for Mercury 11.07.1-beta
  -----------------------------

+This is a bug-fix release.  It fixes a problem that was preventing the standard
+library from building in the csharp grade on Cygwin and also adds support for
+using GCC in C99 (or GNU99) mode with Mercury.  In addition, there are a number
+of minor changes to the standard library.
+
  Changes to the Mercury standard library:

  * We have added the predicate map.keys_and_values/3.
Index: README.Cygwin
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.Cygwin,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 README.Cygwin
--- README.Cygwin	8 Nov 2011 03:15:46 -0000	1.4
+++ README.Cygwin	15 Feb 2012 05:52:50 -0000
@@ -4,8 +4,17 @@

  Mercury has been ported to Windows using the "Cygwin"
  (formerly also known as "Cygwin32" and "gnu-win32") Unix emulation
-package.  We've tested the port on Windows XP SP2,
-but it should work on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 and NT.
+package.  We have tested the port on 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.

  This file documents how to install the binary distribution of
  Mercury on Windows and how to build the source distribution

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