On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:49:00 -0700
David Roundy
I know others here have far more experience in this arena than I do, but are there any plans to support hsplugins or the ghc api, or just plain running under ghci, so that a recompile-reinstall cycle won't be necesary to update one's configuration? I'd assume this'd be in the works for version 0.7 or so, but thought I might as well ask.
0.7? I don't think any of us have planned that far ahead :). I think the current 'restart' (serialize state, exec, deserialize) is more promising than dynamic code reloading. We just need to make additional pieces of state serializable (layouts, especially). You can cut out the reinstall stage by pointing 'restart' straight at your xmonad repo. You can skip the recompilation step by telling restart to 'runghc my/xmonad/dir/Main.hs'. Cheers, Spencer Janssen