We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri Feb 2, 2001,
from 3:15 to 4:00pm.

Attendees:
	Fergus Henderson (fjh)
	David Jeffery (dgj)
	Julien Fischer (juliensf)
	Ina Cheng (inch)
	Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
	Levi Cameron (lpcam)
	Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
	Simon Mei (xcsm)
	Tyson Dowd (trd)
	David Overton (dmo)
	Mark Brown (dougl)
	Simon Taylor (stayl)
	Thomas Conway (conway)

1. Release

	- There are still some bugs to be fixed, but the release is
	  close enough that it's worth starting to test installation
	  of the distributions.

2. 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)
		- Fixed a bug in retry in the debugger.
		- Has been working with Tom on deep profiling. 
		- Discussed a new approach to tabling with Kostis Sagonas.

	Thomas Conway (conway)
		- More work on deep profiling, will give a demonstration soon.
		- To try deep profiling, check out the `deep2' branch.

	Mark Brown (dougl)
		- Term dependency analysis in the declarative debugger
		  now works.
		- Working on documentation.

	Fergus Henderson (fjh):
		- Reviewed bytecode and MLDS changes from juliensf and lpcam.
		- Discussed tabling in MLDS backend with Kostis Sagonas.
		- Finishing GCC backend.
		- Fixed MLDS bug for release.

	Tyson Dowd (trd):
		- Fixed floating point in .NET backend.
		- Did some work on fixing multiple inclusion of
		  `:- pragma c_header_code(...)'.
		- Did some writing.
	
	David Overton (dmo):
		- Installed software on the new machine (venus.cs.mu.oz.au).
		- Working on improving performance of the new mode checker.

	David Jeffery (dgj)
		- Worked on merging the HAL branch into the main branch.

	Ina Cheng (inch)
		- Has been working on encoding Mercury types in XML.
		- Working on web client.

	Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
		- Working on a database for browser information.

	Simon Mei (xcsm)
		- Working on documentation for quickcheck.
	
	Julien Fischer (juliensf)
		- Dealing with review comments for changes to MLDS.
		- The Java backend now generates code for most things,
		  RTTI and the standard library still need work.

	Levi Cameron (lpcam)
		- Working on handling nondet code in the bytecode interpreter.
		- Improved efficiency of calling native code from bytecode.

	Simon Taylor (stayl)
		- Calling Mercury code from Aditi now works, but needs
		  much more testing.

Minutes taken by Simon Taylor (stayl@cs.mu.oz.au).