[Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Samstag 03 April 2010 20:45:47 schrieb Don Stewart:
> schlepptop:
> > Don Stewart schrieb:
> >> While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss
> >> what we think the most important student projects for the summer
> >> should be.
> >>
> >> Here's the list:
> >>
> >>    
> >> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-8-most-important-haskell-
> >>org-gsoc-projects/
> >>
> >> Please consider applying to work on these tasks!
> >
> > For me a cabal-install that can cope with dependencies reliably would
> > be the most important project. (I get frequently bug reports because
> > data-accessor-template cannot be installed by cabal-install although
> > it can be installed with plain Cabal.)
>
> That's interesting. Why can't it be installed? Does
> data-accessor-template, or somethiing it depends on,  have incorrectly
> specified version ranges?

As a guess, probably http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3799 as 
exemplified by http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-
January/072136.html 

>
> --  Don