Scala Meeting report, 2010-01-12

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Report from the Scala Core Team meeting, 2010-01-12:

People attending the meeting: Hubert, Martin, Eugene, Phil, Alex, Tiark,
Adriaan, Lukas, Toni, Gilles, Iulian, Philipp.

* Current work
- work on .net compiler and integration package for Visual Studio
- parallel arrays, fixed bugs and added methods for array access
- probabilistic analysis for vector concatenation: finally having a
workable model
- work on immutable.Map, experimented with using map structure for
general relations.
- .NET / IKVM
- inlining fixes
- actors benchmarking
- refining partial function with better types
- build manager
- more profiling for compiler performance

* 2.8.0 Beta
- a number of issues were fixed subsequently to the release of RC7,
including #2364, #2883, and the slow `classPath.findClass`. Among the open
issues: #2880, #2876, #2877, #2865.
- in general, it seems that none of those is a showstopper; further,
more betas/RCs will follow after this initial release.
- consensus: we will call RC7 the beta. We will post a message asking
whether any critical problems should stop us from releasing.

* Eclipse
- The Eclipse plugin might require more frequent updates with respect to
the beta releases of the compiler.
- We will create a separate stream of releases for the plugin, which can
be released more often. The update site will be made available together
with the beta. Miles will indicate which revisions should be included in
the update site.