Priorities for 6.10

[Don Stewart]

simonpj:
> | > We probably don't want "extralibs" and the HLP.
> | >
> | > Are you willing to lead on this?
> |
> | We'd want other things not in extralibs too (e.g. binary, json, feed,
> | tagsoup..)
> 
> Absolutely! I wasn't suggesting that HLP = current extralibs. Rather,
> we were thinking that we could abolish extralibs in favour of HLP.
> 
> Were you happy with the other things I suggested?  Namely:
> 
> a) We ship HLP with GHC, but HLP is still a separately-upgradable
> entity.  (Reason: a new GHC needs a new HLP, certainly for binary
> distributions)

Yep.

> b) You and Duncan lead
> 
> The disadvantage of (a) is that it couples the release cycles.  On the
> other hand, a release of GHC with boot-libs only won't be much use to
> anyone.
> 

I'm very keen to have HLP in place by the 6.10 release. I've started
a wiki page here,

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform

which includes an example of the kind of coverage the HLP would provide.
Duncan, can you add some  details on the mechanics of the release
process we've talked about, and we can flesh out in more detail how
this identification and release process will work.

-- Don