Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of Status/Releases

Timestamp:

07/09/08 08:36:50 (5 years ago)

Author:

simonpj

Comment:

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Status/Releases

@@ -16 +16 @@
  * '''External Core''' (output only) is working again, thanks to Tim Chevalier.
 
-  * '''Haddock 2''' (see also #1964 (GHC.Prim), #2335 (build problem))
+  * '''Haddock 2''' (see also #1964 (GHC.Prim), #2335 (build problem)).  (Ian: a few days.)
     * Build it with GHC (maybe ship it with GHC too)
     * Documentation for GHC API done via Haddock 2
+
+ * '''Unicode support for text I/O'''.  This means adding Unicode encoding/decoding for Text I/O handles.   (Simon M: a few days work.)
+   * Consensus was that Text I/O should always use the current locale encoding.  
+   * You can elect to have no encoding by opening in binary mode, but that's all.
 
  * '''Extensible exceptions''', along the lines of Simon's paper [http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/ext-exceptions.pdf "An Extensible Dynamically-Typed Hierarchy of Exceptions"].  This is mainly a library change.  ''Simon Marlow''
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    * C program (or Excel) that calls multiple Haskell functions gets just one copy of the RTS, rather than one per DLL as now.
    * Performance penalty, but too small to measure
+
+ * '''Back-end revamp''', remove mangler (see also #1501).  John Dias is in charge.  For 6.10 we will make sure that the whole existing path still exists, so we can choose at a late date whether to rely on the new path or not.
 
  * '''[http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Indexed_types Type families]''', fully working. ''Manuel Chakravarty and Simon PJ''
@@ -47 +53 @@
 == Temporary list of 6.10 priorities ==
 
-  * Back-end revamp, remove mangler (see also #1501)
+
   * shared libraries (#1876)
   * Haddock 2 (see also #1964 (GHC.Prim), #2335 (build problem))