Re: [xmonad] xmonad-contrib and mtl-2 -- bugfix release?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:00:30AM +1100, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 17 December 2010 09:54, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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It was just pointed out in #haskell by mreh that the version of xmonad-contrib currently released on Hackage fails to build, since it does not specify version bounds on its mtl dependency, but fails to build with mtl-2, since XMonad.Utils.CustomKeys uses the Reader constructor and HintedGrid uses State.  This has since been fixed; the darcs version of xmonad-contrib builds fine with mtl-1 and mtl-2. However, it's poor form to have the released version fall over if you just do 'cabal install xmonad-contrib'.

Concretely, I propose that we do a spot bugfix release of just the 0.9.1 tag + the patch that fixed the mtl-2 incompatibility:

 Mon Nov 15 18:26:54 EST 2010  Adam Vogt  * Compatibility with mtl-1 and mtl-2

The other option would be to do a point release of whatever is currently in darcs, but that would be more work to do properly.

I'm of the opinion that making a new release of what's in darcs is better off, since (if memory serves) there's quite a new features and other fixes in darcs that users keep asking for. Or, maybe make a point-release now for building purposes and then looking at starting to stabilise, etc. what's in darcs so as to get a new release ready?

Yes, I'm not against making a new release with all the stuff currently in darcs. In fact, it's probably a good idea. But that will take more time and I'd rather first just quickly get something up on Hackage that compiles. -Brent