[m-rev.] for review 3/3: Make a number of changes to the README.md file

[Julien Fischer]

Hi,

On Tue, 27 May 2014, Peter Wang wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:15:13 +1000, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> I've put it on github in my own clone of mercury, and github is formatting
>> it here:
>> https://github.com/PaulBone/mercury/blob/readme2/README.md
>>
>> There's something odd with the spacing of things in the list but I don't
>> know and don't really want to know why it's doing that.  I was more
>> concerned with the content.
>>
>
> Blank lines between list items is significant.
>
> You can see and download my suggestions here (basically, less talky):
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3b8bd2c12d8fcacc1d86

I am happy with Peter's revised version.  I also suggest the following:

* Removing the references to IRIX-5 (including the file README.IRIX-5)
   completely.  IRIX is pretty much dead, this documentation is pretty
   much clutter at this point.

* Removing references to lcc (hasn't been tried with Mercury for years)
   and the old .NET backend from README.md (likely to cause confusion
   more than anything else).

* Replacing the contents of README.HPUX and README.AIX to say that
   Mercury (to the best of our knowledge) hasn't been tried with recent
   versions of those OSs.

Cheers,
Julien.