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

* On Thursday, December 16 2010, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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 happy to do the work to make this happen, I just wanted to hear some reactions first.

-Brent

Go for it. You'll probably have to re-record the changes in contrib since I believe some of them involve modules that were added since 0.9.1 This is a relevant bug I opened earlier: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=419 Adam