[MLton] upcoming release

[Stephen Weeks]

> NLFFI received only mediocre support in the 2005 Survey, and I'm
> happy enough to let it go as is.  If there are users out there who
> want/need better support, we can grease them when they squeak.  The
> question is whether or not to incorporate it into tools/libraries
> targets of the top-level Makefile and include them in a binary
> release.

Why not, if it can make a user's life easier?  Hopefully it will get
some use and we'll get the feedback.

> > I didn't try out MinGW, but I'd be happy for someone to give it a
> > try.  As I recall, we're still in the state where there is some
> > strangeness in saving the world due to 
> 
> Due to what?  Not that I have a MinGW platform around to try it on.

Whoops.  Due to a system call to open (for the world file) failing for
no sensible reason.  At least, that's what I remember.

> I presume we are still including the man pages, which should be 
> coordinated with the wiki pages.

Sure.  

> I suspect the whole website (excluding the obvious links to Download 
> attachments and CVS/SVN/mail archives) isn't all that big, even in HTML 
> format.

True.

> What I would find more annoying is the wikiness of the HTML found in
> /usr/share/mlton/doc.  I'd vote to post-process the HTML to
> eliminate the wiki action links, though I don't know how hard that
> will be.

That seems sensible, and easy.