Scala Meeting report, 2010-05-25

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Scala Meeting 2010-05-25

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

* Current work
- fixed specialization tickets
- non-null analysis
- parsing metadata for generics
- improved vectors implementation
- general bug fixing

* Scala IO (Jesse Eichar)
- Jesse chose most of the Java 7 API that he wants to implement, did
most of it
- Wants to make it work on different file systems (Zip, disk, ..)
- Main gain vs. Java 7 / NIO2: easier to use, feels like Scala collections
- Collaborating with Joshua Suereth for ARM and benchmarking
- Code is on "incubator" on github

* RC3
- There's a bug in the "NotNull" pre-implementation (#3440). Will be
fixed only after final
- #3347 appears to be a duplicate of #1409, other build manager bugs can
wait until after final
- Fixed most specialization bugs, except #3434 which is still open and
critical. Should be fixed by today
- #3470: "start" is idempotent since 2.8 (behavior on calling it
multiple times was not defined before). If you want to re-start an actor
you need a new instance of the actor.
- Release ASAP, Wednesday or Thursday