Re: [xmonad] Ubuntu, Xmonad, and Xinerama

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

* David Roundy [2008-03-19 12:09:41-0400]

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:02:14PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

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* Christopher Sanner [2008-03-19 11:24:58-0400]

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David Roundy wrote:

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Someone really should figure out how to build software reliably using ghc packages. This is just embarassing. And then we could tell the cabal folks how to do this.

I understand that dons is reluctant to load up ghc every time xmonad loads, but perhaps we could figure out some way to track the modification date of the xmonad and/or xmonad-contrib packages and recompile if those have changed.

alternatively, could the installation of xmonad or xmonad-contrib could include post-install actions to kick off recompiling?

Note that xmonad can be installed system-wide (say, with --prefix=/usr/local) and going to every user's .xmonad does not look sane.

As a workaround, however, we could install an empty file as /etc/xmonad, and then we could trigger a recompile whenever this file is newer than xmonad.hs. It might be easier to do this than to figure out where ghc stores its packages to look at their timestamp (which would be the right thing to do).

1. (Just in case someone will take this approach) Programs (other than editors or package managers) should avoid touching /etc, I believe. So you better use /var. 2. In case of --user install, that file should be placed under ~/.xmonad. It may seem that just touching xmonad.hs is simpler, but... It's not very ethical from my point of view.

Agreed. What do you think of my patch to check the timestamps on the ghc's package files? -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University