On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:02:39AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
I'm not keen on this. We already decided to restrict the recompilation checking, to not use --make, to only look at xmonad.hs itself.
Looking at package.confs is something to consider for ghc --make, but I strongly feel that's not xmonad job. xmonad.recompile isn't a haskell package and build system.
I'm afraid that xmonad.recompile actually is a haskell build system, whether or not you want it to be one. If we don't want to implement a haskell build system, we shouldn't implement one, rather than implementing a poor build system, and saddling our users with a confusing hard-to-upgrade package. I agree that since the only reason we introduce any timestamp-checking at all is for efficiency we don't want to make it ultra-sophisticated. But it'd be nice if it at least worked in the common case. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University