Priorities for 6.10

[Isaac Dupree]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
>>  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.

When manually installing GHC on Linux, it would also be quite convenient 
to be able to have cabal-install available without manually download; 
runghc Setup.hs {configure, build, install}; half a dozen packages from 
Hackage.  (for me, it ended up being, in order of successful 
installation after ghc-6.8.3: Cabal(1.4), zlib, mtl, parsec, network, 
HTTP, cabal-install).  (Maybe if the extralibs tarball isn't frowned on 
too much, it might be simplest just to include cabal-install in that?)

-Isaac