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Add WiX installer scripts to contrib/wix

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+WiX installer source files
+==========================
+
+The files in this folder are used by the thg-winbuild [1] package
+building architecture to create a Mercurial MSI installer.   These files
+are versioned within the Mercurial source tree because the WXS files
+must kept up to date with distribution changes within their branch.  In
+other words, the default branch WXS files are expected to diverge from
+the stable branch WXS files.  Storing them within the same repository is
+the only sane way to keep the the source tree and the installer in sync.
+
+The MSI installer builder uses only the mercurial.ini file from the
+contrib/win32 folder, the contents of which have been historically used
+to create an InnoSetup based installer.  The rest of the files there are
+ignored.
+
+The MSI packages built by thg-winbuild require elevated (admin)
+privileges to be installed due to the installation of MSVC CRT libraries
+under the %system32% folder.  Thus the InnoSetup installers may still
+be useful to some users.
+
+To build your own MSI packages, clone the thg-winbuild [1] repository
+and follow the README.txt [2] instructions closely.  There are fewer
+prerequisites for a WiX [3] installer than an InnoSetup installer, but
+they are more specific.
+
+Direct questions or comments to Steve Borho <[e-mail]>
+
+[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild
+[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt
+[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/