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The attached message has been automatically discarded. Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:50:59 +0100 From: Joachim Breitner To: xmonad@haskell.org Subject: Re: [xmonad] 0.5 and packages

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 06.12.2007, 16:51 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart:

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Has anyone attempted to try out packing up the release candidates for xmonad, for their favourite package systems?

http://xmonad.org/xmonad.xml (for details)

The process of packaging should be a lot simpler now -- as xmonad the binary can be reconfigured without recompiling, making the package maintainers job simpler.

However, it would still be good to get some feedback on packaging before the release. Particular from the high profile package systems -- debian, gentoo et al.

Well, I acted preparationally: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454440 (Bug against libghc6-x11-dev, maintained by Ian Lynagh, to packate the new version of X11).

Yep, we'll need X11 1.4

Once that is done, I’ll have a look at the new release, which probably already obsoletes what I have done with xmonad-rebuild in the last release :-)

Yes, xmonad-rebuild and similar scripts won't be required now. There will still be a runtime dependency on GHC, as usual. Also, X11-extras no longer is used (instead, X11 1.4.0) -- Don