GHC 5.00 release update

[Simon Marlow]

Hi Folks,

Just to keep you up to date on where we're at.  We're planning to enter
Feature Freeze for GHC 5.00 within a week (two at the most).  Before
then, we're hoping to get GHCi working on Windows, and implement
do-notation on the GHCi command line.  If anyone has any more
*essential* feature requests, please jump in now.  

It won't be the end of the world if something doesn't get into the first
release, the main thing is to get a release out ASAP, get some feedback
and stabilise the basic functionality.  I imagine it won't be too long
before 5.02.

Feature freeze will be followed by a stabilisation period during which
we fix all outstanding bugs, do testing, performance evaluation, update
the docs, and fix any issues with distribution building.  This will
probably take a couple of weeks, so we're aiming for a release around
the middle of next month.

Cheers,
	Simon