[m-dev.] For review: Mercury meeting minutes for 9/2/2001
Levi Cameron
l.cameron2 at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Feb 9 16:32:48 AEDT 2001
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+We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri Feb 9, 2001,
+from 3:15 to 4:00pm.
+
+Attendees:
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ Thomas Conway (conway)
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh)
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+ Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell)
+ Ina Cheng (inch)
+ Levi Cameron (lpcam)
+ Simon Mei (xcsm)
+ Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
+ Julien Fischer (juliensf)
+ David Jeffery (dgj)
+ Simon Taylor (stayl)
+
+1. Progress reports
+
+ We went around the table, with each person in turn discussing what
+ they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning
+ to work on.
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ - Mainly been working with Tom on deep profiling.
+
+ Thomas Conway (conway)
+ - More work on deep profiling (gave a demonstration today)
+
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh):
+ - MDLS backend bugs fixed
+ - Testing lcc builds (some still failing, but most pass)
+ - Working on abstract equivalence types for Java backend
+
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+ - Mostly working on administrative matters (eg progess report)
+
+ Adrian Pellas-Rice (apell)
+ - Almost to compile stage
+ - Voiced concerns about need for constructor class to allow
+ generalisation; consensus was that in the past extension
+ limitations have been accepted in an imperfect state if they
+ would prove useful anyway. Future backward compatability
+ loss would probably not be a great concern in this case.
+
+ Ina Cheng (inch)
+ - Code for web client almost finished
+ - An issue with the problem that the client requires hard
+ coding to support arbitrary methods
+
+ Levi Cameron (lpcam)
+ - Support for type information, submodules, nondet procs added
+ - Higher order call support added, but still buggy
+ - tests/general pass with the exception of floats, higher
+ order calls and calls involving builting__compare/unify
+
+ Simon Mei (xcsm)
+ - Finished and posted user's guide for review
+ - Largely finished code; posted for review
+
+ Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
+ - Worked on type information database
+ - Has been adding test cases
+
+ Julien Fischer (juliensf)
+ - Worked on runtime system for Java backend
+ - Most features now working, but currently lacks support for
+ nondet/multidet code, foreign code, higher order predicates
+ and RTTI
+
+ David Jeffery (dgj)
+ - Fixished a bug fix for polymorphism (involving type var
+ dependency)
+ - Worked on merging HAL branch changes (merge done; still
+ bugs to fix though)
+
+ Simon Taylor (stayl)
+ - Fixed a bug in intermodule optimisation
+ - Release date still 'soon'
+
+2. Release
+ - Was decided to abandon old release branch and fork a new one from
+ the main branch.
+ - Still some low level backend bugs
+ - Still issues with variable liveness, Zoltan will try to remove the
+ sanity checks as a temporary measure
+
+3. Housekeeping
+ - NFS mounts are not all consistent; Fergus volunteered to fix them
+ - hydra is somewhat unreliable; David Overton was "volunteered"
+ to move the webserver to venus
+
+Minutes taken by Levi Cameron (lpcam at cs.mu.oz.au).
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