Re: [xmonad] Call for xmonad.hs

On 2008.10.19 13:02:39 -0700, Don Stewart scribbled 1.1K characters:

gwern0:

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On 2008.10.19 14:13:49 +0200, Joachim Breitner scribbled 1.9K characters:

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Hi,

Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 21:35 -0400 schrieb Gwern Branwen:

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There're ~30 xmonad.hs's here http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive, but perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 are obsolete or don't compile with darcs XM/XMC (at a very rough guess). I'd like more.

I can help with that. Do you want more type-check errors, or more syntax erors?

(SCNR)

For most of them, it looks like they're just out-of-date. My count includes a bunch of xmonad.hses which never jumped from 0.4 to 0.5, and obviously from 0.5 to darcs there've been any number of API reasonable to infer the user is no longer using XMonad (in which case they aren't useful in considering how to make XMonad users' lives easier) or are using a different config (and then obviously we should care less about a configuration even its creator doesn't want to use).

If they're not type correct, moved them to an 'Old' subpage?

-- Don

I think having a <0.5 subpage certainly makes sense; there's a very big difference between pre and post- there. (Going from 0.5 to darcs might just involve messing around with some imports and names for many configs, but for 0.4 to 0.5 you'd need to rewrite the danged thing.) It might even be a good idea to in this way mildly discourage spreading of old configs. (upgrade already, sheesh!) And the rest? I dunno, perhaps a second subpage for 0.5 >= x >= 0.8, or perhaps by version. -- gwern SALDV Aum enigma remailers embassy NATIA in Armani Sayeret