Priorities for 6.10

[Don Stewart]

duncan.coutts:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:38 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Neil Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > >>  While I was away last week I jotted down a list of priorities for 6.10.  Some of these are in the bug tracker and some aren't, but I think it'd be a good idea for us to first discuss what we really want to see happen in the 6.10 time frame and then update the ticket database to match.
> > > 
> > > The thing that would be of biggest benefit to Windows developers is
> > > the inclusion of cabal.exe (cabal-install) in the binary installer.
> > > I'm not sure what build changes are required to allow this.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any objections to us doing this?  I agree it would be a 
> > substantial win.  We should consider cabal-install to be a part of Cabal - 
> > indeed the 'cabal' command is the preferred UI for Cabal now, so to ship 
> > one without the other seems wrong.
> 
> We'll also have to include the zlib and HTTP packages, which are
> dependencies of cabal-install.
> 
> These are in any case obvious candidates for a Haskell platform release
> and the Windows installer is really a platform release and not a core
> ghc release.

We need to do something about the Haskell library platform around the
6.10 release too. At least a list of libraries  considered the 
an minimal platform for support by the distros.