On Jan 3, 2008 8:19 PM, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:

allbery:

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> On Jan 3, 2008, at 17:19 , Don Stewart wrote:
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> >well, a lot of other apps don't put stub config files in, vim/mutt/ion
> >etc. they instead document what needs to be done.
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> As a counterexample, last I checked Pine did copy in a default config.

So I'm open to the idea, but need a good story for how to
avoid *requiring* ghc at runtime. At the moment, as soon as
you create a config file, xmonad will try to compile it.

If you never customise xmonad, then that runtime dependency isn't
required. But maybe that doesn't matter?

Well, that's a good point. An idea to get around this easily would be to copy the template to a file called something different (e.g. xmonad.hs.customize-me) with a comment at the top saying to rename it to xmonad.hs .  I really can't imagine there will be many (if any) users that use xmonad without customizing it, though (?).

-Brent