Where I'm at:

-- General --
[x] haddock linkage from HP packages to GHC core packages is broken

-- think I have this fixed.... checking in all contexts

[x] decision on QuickCheck?

-- staying with 2.6, because 2.7 added a dep on a package not in the platform

-- Source Tarball --
[x] missing platform.sh scripts

[x] missing os-extras in hptool/src

-- both done

-- Mac --

[x] start.html needs a once over updating

-- done

[-] uninstall-hs should clean out /usr/local/bin symlinks (as it does with /usr/bin)

-- turns out it already was... long post on why it is hard to clean out installations that are configured to install directly into common shared directories (like /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/man)

[?] activate-hs should add -P for clang pre-processing
- bug found in Cabal

- adding -P for all preprocessing will suck
- no other good fix

[-] ensuring that the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 is set

-- decided to defer this to later - just need to remember to do this by hand before starting the build

-- Windows --
[ ] GLUT issue in ghci

-- no updates

-- Website --
[ ] templatize info on pages
[ ] add build mode to bptool Main
- needs to take file of downloads & hashes

-- this can all wait until after the RC

The issue with pre-processing is a big one - and one not easily solvable. It has already bit developers (bos posted about it recently), and it will bite again.

I'm also feeling at a loss to actually test the Platform. Normally I do a big system build, like Pandoc, or my own Plush to prove that a wider variety of developer packages will compile with the platform. Alas, none of those will compile with 7.8.3 and this platform. [for the curious: texmath ends up in a compilation that never ends during the profiling lib build, and Plush relies on warp, which puts it into it's own cabal hell...)

- Mark