PR 5025 : no MSJVM support.

This is documented upfront. Also added some more stuff to the file while I was at it, including a list of platforms ant runs happily on. The implicit message there is 'if it doesnt work, it is your fault :-)' git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@270037 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
23 years ago · 217e325602
--- a/docs/manual/install.html
+++ b/docs/manual/install.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
 <title>Apache Ant User Manual</title>
 <title>Installing Ant</title>
 </head>

 <body>
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Ant CVS repository</a> on-line. </p>

 <hr>
 <h2><a name="sysrequirements">System Requirements</a></h2>
 Ant has been used successfully on many platforms, including Linux,
 commercial flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX,
 Windows 9x and NT, Novell Netware 6 and MacOS X. 
 <p>
 To build and use Ant, you must have a JAXP-compliant XML parser installed and 
 available on your classpath.</p>
@@ -52,10 +55,17 @@ You can then either put the jars from your preferred parser into Ant's

 <p>
 For the current version of Ant, you will also need a JDK installed on
 your system, version 1.1 or later. A future version of Ant will require
 JDK 1.2 or later.
 your system, version 1.1 or later. Some tasks work better on post-1.1 systems;
 some tasks only work on Java 1.2 and successors. 
 A future version of Ant -Ant 2.0- will require JDK 1.2 or later, though
 Ant 1.x strives to retain 1.1 compatibility.
 </p><p>
 <strong>Note: </strong>The Microsoft JVM/JDK is not adequate on its own, although the MS
 compiler is supported.
 </p>
  
 <p>
 <strong>Note #2: </strong>If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work.
 </p>  
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="installing">Installing Ant</a></h2>
 <p>The binary distribution of Ant consists of three directories:
@@ -164,6 +174,11 @@ must be set to the directory containing where you installed Ant. Again
 this is set by the Ant scripts to the value of the ANT_HOME environment
 variable.</li>
 </ul>
 The supplied ant shell scripts all support an <tt>ANT_OPTS</tt>
 environment variable which can be used to supply extra options
 to ant. Some of the scripts also read in an extra script stored
 in the users home directory, which can be used to set such options. Look
 at the source for your platform's invocation script for details.

 <hr>  
 <h2><a name="buildingant">Building Ant</a></h2>