Priorities for 6.10

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Worth updating http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Releases
with these plans.   Many but not all points are listed there

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Simon Marlow
| Sent: 16 June 2008 12:39
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Ian Lynagh
| Cc: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
| Subject: Priorities for 6.10
|
| Hi folks,
|
| While I was away last week I jotted down a list of priorities for 6.10.  Some
| of these are in the bug tracker and some aren't, but I think it'd be a good
| idea for us to first discuss what we really want to see happen in the 6.10
| time frame and then update the ticket database to match.
|
| These are things that still need to be done, as opposed to big improvements
| already in the code base (e.g. type families).
|
|  * Back-end rewrite, remove mangler (see also #1501)
|  * shared libraries (#1876)
|  * parallel GC (close #1589, #2185)
|  * Haddock 2 (see also #1964 (GHC.Prim), #2335 (build problem))
|  * Unicode encoding/decoding for Text I/O handles.  Consensus was that Text
| I/O should always use
|    the current locale encoding.
|  * Put in place a robust solution to the backwards-compatibility problem
|  * Extensible exceptions
|  * More library reorganisation
|  * binary package DB, or at least make the one-file-per-package work (#723,
| #2089)
|  * ^C should raise an exception by default (also SIGPIPE, see #1619)
|
| Please circulate any additional items you can think of.  I'm working on
| getting the parallel GC in now, and I've started looking at Unicode support
| in Handles, meanwhile I'm thinking about the backwards-compatibility problem.
|
| Cheers,
|       Simon