Status update: HP 2011.x and GHC 7

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 6 Nov 2010, at 16:20, Don Stewart wrote:

>        * GLUT (known issue)
>             + adds StateVar -any (9 packages use it), Tensor -any (4  
> packages use it)
>             + last compliant version 2.1.2.1
>
>        * OpenGL (known issue)
>             + adds  OpenGLRaw >=1.1.0.0 (6 users)
>                     GLURaw >=1.1.0.0, (1 user)
>                     StateVar -any, (9 users)
>                     ObjectName -any, (2 users)
>                     Tensor -any (4 users)
>             + last compliant version 2.2.3.0

Aren't these just internal re-arrangements?  The OpenGL packages have  
been split up into a number of smaller pieces, making it easier to use  
small pieces of functionality - but has anything new really been been  
added?

> = Haskell Platform packages that will break with GHC 7, because base  
> 3 has gone away:
>
>        * haskell src-1.0.1.3
>                ++ libraries will have to fix this

Is it too late to propose that haskell-src-exts be added to the  
platform instead of haskell-src?

>        * haddock 0.8.1 is out, but ghc 7 RC is shipping with haddock  
> 0.8.0

Errm, surely you mean haddock 2.8.0, not 0.8.0 (which dates from Oct  
2006).

Regards,
     Malcolm