working towards a new release

[Alastair Reid]

> So, if people could give me / the CVS list an indication of what
> remains to be done on the parts they're working on, that'd be
> helpful.

The only goals I think I can achieve any time soon is:

  I'd like to find a way to make hugs +G silent and usable from within
  Makefiles (i.e., return an error code).  Tweak hugs?  Tweak runhugs?

  Since ffi-generated files are architecture-dependent, make install
  ought to put ffi-generated code into an architecture-dependent
  directory.  Is that ${libdir}?  (I'll happily let someone else do
  this if they get the urge.)

Other things needing done are:

  I think there's more ffi-dependent libraries to be had simply by 
  tweaking convert_libraries and MkInstall.in

  It'd be good to make a list of all the libraries and add a test
  which does nothing more than load the lot of them.  There's some
  tests of this nature for the old libs.  (This might have been done
  already for all I know.)

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Alastair