package versions for 2012.2.0.0

[Don Stewart]

That's all you need to do - but it might not happen for this release.

On Monday, May 7, 2012, Jason Dagit wrote:

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> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dons00 at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
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>> Thanks Mark.
>>
>> Some comments:
>>
>> * random: yep, we just move it into the library set.
>> * deepseq is in the list of supported libs, so we just have to make sure
>> it is on every system - if it comes with ghc that's ok.
>> * integer-* aren't parts of the platform, so we don't explicitly require
>> them (same with hoopl, dph etc)
>> * bump alex
>> * OpenGL -- that's a tough one.
>>
>> With   OpenGL we are stalled - the package addition policy says that we
>> have to get things like "ObjectNAme" and "StateVar" would have to be
>> blessed for inclusion -- this will never happen.
>>
>> We need a version of OpenGL where those libs are private to OpenGL, and
>> not exposed to regular Haskell users, then we can upgrade. Time has shown
>> that they are small utilitiy libs only used by the GL package, so I think:
>> /they should be folded into OpenGL, with maintainer support, then we can
>> upgrade safely.
>>
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> A few of them are used in other packages by Sven (like OpenAL), but as far
> as I can tell OpenAL doesn't actually build anywhere (I only tried
> windows/osx).
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> Is that all I need to change (moving the extra stuff into an opengl
> namespace)?
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>>
>> Jason can likely help us with this.
>>
>
> What is my deadline for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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