Priorities for 6.10

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:39 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

>  * Back-end rewrite, remove mangler (see also #1501)
>  * shared libraries (#1876)
>  * parallel GC (close #1589, #2185)
>  * Haddock 2 (see also #1964 (GHC.Prim), #2335 (build problem))
>  * Unicode encoding/decoding for Text I/O handles.  Consensus was that Text I/O should always use
>    the current locale encoding.
>  * Put in place a robust solution to the backwards-compatibility problem
>  * Extensible exceptions
>  * More library reorganisation
>  * binary package DB, or at least make the one-file-per-package work (#723, #2089)
>  * ^C should raise an exception by default (also SIGPIPE, see #1619)

I think that pretty much covers my priorities.

> Please circulate any additional items you can think of.  I'm working
> on getting the parallel GC in now, and I've started looking at Unicode
> support in Handles, meanwhile I'm thinking about the
> backwards-compatibility problem.

I got GNU libiconv (LGPL) working on windows btw. It can be built using
Cabal (the C code, not just the binding). It makes a static lib that's
almost 1 megabyte. Building as a shared lib would be preferable but
that's of course tricky on Windows (not the building, but getting the
runtime linker to find the dlls). It could be reduced in size by
excluding more encodings.

Duncan