Priorities for 6.10

Claus Reinke claus.reinke at talk21.com
Mon Jun 16 08:38:52 EDT 2008


> * Put in place a robust solution to the backwards-compatibility problem

Which one is that? Not being able to use one lib with different GHCs,
I fear?-)

>Please circulate any additional items you can think of.  

One immediately comes to mind from recent discussions:

* initial GHC API improvements: preserve comments and pragmas,
    provide generic traversals of GHC ASTs (probably via Data/Typeable,
    though that doesn't seem general enough for all uses), find library dir 
    (all listed at GhcApiStatus wiki page).

Note that these are initial showstoppers, notwithstanding more
general improvements that might come out of the GSoC project.

Claus




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