- case-insensitive: looking good - will require hashable
- attoparsec: looking good
- JuicyPixels: people like the idea of having a library like this one, perhaps even this one, but there is concern that this API hasn't baked enough.
- OpenGL & GLUT: there is a proposal to remove these. The HP versions are very stale, and the new versions would require inclusion of packages ObjectName, StateVar and Tensor which has not met with approval. I would like to see those three packages removed, the modules folded back into OpenGL, and put under Graphics.Rendering.OpenGL.
Proposals we need for 2013.2:
- hashable: required by case-insensitive, no proposal yet
Proposals I'd like to see for 2013.2:
- unordered-containers: though, perhaps Johan is going to meld that into containers? I'd like to see the development plan for this (and hashable) settled.
- aeson: we need this in the platform, as JSON has become ubiquitous. It requires settling hashable and unordered-containers.
Proposals that will take some more thought, hence not likely for 2013.2:
- test-framework & friends: these require a number of other packages like ansi-terminal and hostname. I suspect they should all just go in, but it will take some time to review and prep all that.
- criterion & statistics: both require a number of smaller packages we don't have like erf and math-functions. Again, will take time to sort out.
Areas still looking for good candidates (if these are simple could make it this round):
- simple db like dbm or sqlite support
- file utils for common file system manipulations
- logging
- 2D graphics - perhaps gloss and/or diagrams?
- Mark