Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:

On 9 May 2010 06:03, Don Stewart wrote:

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What's the motivation?

Still haven't seen anyone answer this question (and I don't see the point in this either; the only advantage is it might make it easier when doing GHC upgrades or something).

It removes one less variable in possible recompilation errors (I think this was already mentioned as part of making upgrades less liable to issues); it means tab-completion is not stymied by 2 extraneous files with the same prefix as 'xmonad.hs' and makes it easier to see what is what in ~/.xmonad (should users really need to know about .hi and .o files?); and it's a small change, which I think would be justified by either benefit. (If customization is the raison d'etre of xmonad, anything which removes an irritant is a benefit.) The objection that it won't catch stuff in .xmonad/lib is not significant, I don't think. Do many users use that? And if the compilation cleanup is incomplete, does it hurt anything? It would be nice to eliminate *all* the intermediates, but it seems like another 'perfect is the enemy of the good' issue. -- gwern