Darwin/x86 Plans

[Wolfgang Thaller]

So, Apple released their x86-based machines earlier than they  
promised... and GHC is mostly ready for it.

The HEAD has full support for Darwin/x86, but STABLE is still  
unregisterised and has no GHCi support. I am ready to merge the  
Darwin/x86 support to the stable branch, and I really think there  
should be a Darwin/x86 release of GHC 6.4 before that branch gets  
retired.

There's one small problem, though. My patches are for Darwin 8.0,  
which corresponds to Mac OS X version 10.4, but the new Macs run  
10.4.4. They might have made minor-but-annoying changes - I'm sure  
they couldn't care less about compatibility with CLI-only Darwin  
versions running on non-Apple hardware.

I have Apple's current cross compiler tools running on my Mac, so I  
have found out about one particular small change, but until an intel- 
based Mac magically arrives somewhere near me there's no way I can  
test it or build a binary distribution.
Or maybe I should not worry now and release a Mac/x86-only 6.4.3  
later when I have the means to do so, to avoid any risk of holding up  
6.4.2 for that (I remember hearing something about early February, is  
that still the plan?).

Cheers,

Wolfgang