Release plans

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 04:39:55 EDT 2007


David Waern wrote:
>> Here's a quick summary of the major developments that we already have in
>> the 6.8 codebase:
>>
>> - Associated data types, and the new FC intermediate language
>> - GHCi debugger (although there's an overhaul of the breakpoint support
>> almost
>>   ready to go in)
>> - Coverage (HPC)
>> - GADTs + typeclasses
>> - more packages moved from core to extralibs
>> - GHC API changes, compile to object code inside GHCi
>> - performance improvements: simplifier rewrite, and SpecConstr improvements
>> - standalone deriving declarations
>> - left-to-right impredicative instantiation: runST $ foo
> 
> It also has the Haddock comment support, so we could do a release of
> Haddock-GHC.

Ah yes, I thought we were forgetting something.  Thanks David.

Simon


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