Haskell platform proposal: the async package

[Simon Marlow]

I am making a formal proposal to have the async package included in the 
Haskell Platform:

   http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/async

See the wiki paage for details, and a list of open issues for discussion.

I just uploaded the async package itself to Hackage:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.0.0.0

documentation isn't there yet, so I've uploaded it here:

   http://community.haskell.org/~simonmar/async/

I have set the deadline to 13 August 2012 (2 months' time), with 
comments due by 13 July 2012 (one month).  There's plenty of time before 
the next platform release anyway (scheduled for 12 November 2012).


Cheers,
	Simon