On Friday 14 September 2007 05:56:34 Xavier Maillard wrote:
Hi,
Each time I try to update xmonad (from darcs), my Config.hs is broken. This is, for me, the major drawback of xmonad. I do not understand any a line of Haskell and thus I am lost after each upgrade.
Although I love xmonad, it is useless since I can't benefit of any upgrade without boring you about my new Config.hs's problems...
Am I alone in this situation or not ? How haskell rookies like do ?
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Config.hs has been called our Haskell trojan horse -- perhaps it is time to learn Haskell? ;) I think there are some steps you can take to alleviate your problem. First, you can upgrade less often. I think running the stable 0.3 release is a good idea -- it is robust and has nearly all of the features of the current development version. If you stick to stable releases you shouldn't have to update your Config.hs more than once a month. Next, I think judicious use of a nice diff/merge tool will help. I'd use 'vimdiff xmonad-0.2/Config.hs xmonad-0.3/Config.hs', where the first is an old version with all your customizations, and the second is a pristine Config for the new version. Gradually port your customizations from left to right, and compile frequently to catch mistakes early. Finally, if you're having trouble with a contrib module, check the usage info at the top of that module. Every module should have a working Config example (please report a bug if it does not!). Cheers, Spencer Janssen