Starting work on v1.15.8

bin/README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
-Bin
+Build Tools
 ---
-This where all the server-side PHP code used to reside.  I've since deleted all the PHP code from the project,
-because I've more-or-less finished porting it all to server-side JavaScript, in assorted modules located in
-[my_modules](/my_modules/).
+This is where all the server-side PHP code used to reside.  I've since deleted that code from the project,
+because it's all been ported to JavaScript as a collection [Node modules](/my_modules/).
 
 All that remains here is the version of Google's Closure Compiler (and its associated [README](README)) that I use
 to build the client-side JavaScript files -- not because I have any attachment to this particular version, but because
-updating requires a lot of testing, and I don't really have a regression test suite yet.
+updating requires a lot of testing, and I don't really have a regression test suite yet.  Besides, every newer
+version of the Closure Compiler I've tried this year (2014) has resulted in slightly *slower* performance, so there's
+even less incentive to update it.
+
+Here are some useful links regarding Google's Closure Compiler:
+
+- [Documentation](https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/overview)
+- [Project on GitHub](https://github.com/google/closure-compiler)
+- [Release details](https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Releases)
+- [Link to the latest version](http://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.zip)
+- [Discussion Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/closure-compiler-discuss)
+
+There used to be some other build tools here, including a *makefile* and assorted shell scripts, but now that
+I've transitioned everything to JavaScript, the build process is driven by [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) and the project's
+[Gruntfile.js](/Gruntfile.js).