Priorities for 6.10

[Don Stewart]

marlowsd:
> 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.

I'm of the view that cabal-install is the best thing we have now for
lowering the cost of building and distributing Haskell software.

Every OS and distro should have a copy, if it has a GHC.

    GHC + core + cabal-install = minimum Haskell platform

-- Don