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Revision as of 15:58, 13 September 2009
Need meaningful packages
In the feature request was a list of packages, mostly no count. However there were two packages on the list, Meep and Frob, which seemed especially interesting. Some of the packages listed here, of course, are libraries which complete the language environment. But many are nothing more than yet another editor, yet another window manager, yet another revision control system, and we have multiple compilers.
Wouldn't it be more useful from the standpoint of showcasing Haskell to provide some brand new functionality, rather than saying "see, we're almost as good as (name your language that also provides an 'X' written in 'my favorite language')".
Now I have used neither Meep nor Frob, so perhaps they are junk. But it seems to me that we would like some new capability to show off (and for me to write about -G-).
jjmcd
Docs / Beats
For F12, the prose wants to be pretty terse anyway, and the bulk of the release notes are going to L10N later today, so additions need to be very short and to the point.