I'll just toss this idea out there:

I want to be able to pick a runtime to compile against. Some Ada compilers allow me to specify a runtime to use with a --RTS flag. This, of course, also means we'd need to write more runtime variants.

I dropped this on the haskell_proposals reddit for safe keeping/evaluation: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/azjah/pluggable_rts_for_ghc_pickyourownruntime/

/jve

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year.  If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers:

First,
   * suggestions for suitable projects
         (in the past this was organised using a reddit)
   * an administrator to co-ordinate the application to Google
         (I have done it for the last three years but am very willing
          to hand on to someone else)

Google will accept applications from organisations in the period 8th - 12th March 2010, approx 1900UTC.

If haskell.org is accepted again, students can apply between 29th March - 9th April.
More volunteers will be required:

   * to review student applications and choose which to accept
   * to supervise the accepted students

Both of these roles are called "mentor" in the Google system.  Putting together a good team of mentors before applying as an organisation is helpful towards us being accepted into the programme.

Regards,
   Malcolm

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