The 2012.4.0.0 is scheduled for November 12th, 2012. In order for a proposal to made it in that release, it needs to meet the following timeline:
- August 20th, 2012 - Call for proposals for additions and changes
- September 17th, 2012 - Call for proposals ends (no more proposals considered)
- October 1st, 2012 - Proposals decided, Initial version list
If you are a maintainer of a library that you'd like to be in the platform: Now is the time to get a clean version on Hackage, and then put together a proposal for the haskell-platform list. Please see the process for
Adding Packages.
Outstanding work:
- There is a proposal to include vector-0.9.1 in the platform
- There is a ticket to consider including OpenGLRaw — Ticket #167
- There are tickets to consider removing OpenGL and GLUT — Ticket #57, Ticket #58
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There is a ticket about binary being in the platform without being part of it — Ticket #191
- There is a ticket about needing hscolour to build the platform, but it isn't part of it — Ticket #160
Please not that none of the tickets is a proposal before the list yet. If the maintainer of those libraries, or someone else, want to propose a change based on those tickets, now is the time to do so. In any event, I will close those tickets on September 17th.
If you are part of the reviewing process: Traditionally, proposals have been accompanied by lengthly discussions, often resulting in deep API design confabs. As we are approaching a release, I'd like to ask all to consider making this round more succinct if at all possible. In particular, it would be great if proposals were keyed to specific revisions of a library to be considered. If consensus is that something needs to be changed before inclusion - it would be best if maintainers took that input into account, turned another library version and placed that up for consideration. Please note the schedule: I'm going to hold October 1st firm.