Project suggestions for the 2006 GHC hackathon

Add your suggestions for the hackathon below...

• Hack to allow RTS to integrate with an external event loop (eg to give us ideal threading when using Gtk+)

• Add a ghc --clean that just executes find -name '*.o' -o -name '*.hi' -exec rm {} \;, perhaps in a more portable fashion

• Further work on debugging in GHCi

• Improve the native code generator: see BackEndNotes

• Something packaging or Cabal-related

• Get the front panel working again (#599)

• Replace GMP with OpenSSL mp library (#601)

• Generate Windows installers automatically from Cabal packages (or other OS-specific package format, eg. RPM)

• WARNING pragma (#657)

• Warning supperssion (#602)

• Accept more encodings for source code (#690)

• Use gcc's libffi to implement Adjustor.c & ByteCodeFFI

• Add :edit support to GHCi (#95)

• Option to allow compiling from within GHCi (#276)

• Cabalisation of the GHC library (#654)

• GHC plugins

• Work on the Streams library

• Get shared libraries or DLLs working

• Build a Windows-native version of GHC (using MS tools instead of gcc).

• A binding for your favourite C/C++ library... (eg. GStreamer?)

• Any of the bugs, tasks, or feature requests.