Priorities for 6.10

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:38 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Neil Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >>  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.
> > 
> > The thing that would be of biggest benefit to Windows developers is
> > the inclusion of cabal.exe (cabal-install) in the binary installer.
> > I'm not sure what build changes are required to allow this.
> 
> Does anyone have any objections to us doing this?  I agree it would be a 
> substantial win.  We should consider cabal-install to be a part of Cabal - 
> indeed the 'cabal' command is the preferred UI for Cabal now, so to ship 
> one without the other seems wrong.

We'll also have to include the zlib and HTTP packages, which are
dependencies of cabal-install.

These are in any case obvious candidates for a Haskell platform release
and the Windows installer is really a platform release and not a core
ghc release.

BTW, someone will have to figure out how cabal.exe can replace its own
executable file when it wants to upgrade itself (which is pretty
important to making the thing self-sustaining).

Duncan