[arch-haskell] Missing module - best solution?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon Oct 15 14:47:34 CEST 2012


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Ethan Schoonover
<es at ethanschoonover.com> wrote:
> I'm using the arch-haskell repos now and very happy with the results. The
> only snag I've hit is this: I'm trying to use XMonad.Actions.Navigation2D
> which is not in the exposed modules list of haskell-xmonad-contrib
> currently. This is probably coals to Newcastle, but here's the PDF summary
> of that module - http://web.cs.dal.ca/~nzeh/xmonad/Navigation2D.pdf
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to expose this module easily using the current
> haskell-xmonad-contrib package (i.e. by simply editing that exposed modules
> list)? I assume 'no'.
>
> 2. Assuming no, what is the best strategy for installing this module that
> best conforms to continued use of the arch-haskell repos? Once I step off
> the path so to speak, I'm really not sure if I shouldn't just be using cabal
> for everything instead of the repos.
>
> 3. If there is a channel to lobby for adding this module to
> haskell-xmonad-contrib, and assuming that this is that channel, please
> consider this my upvote :)

That module is not available in the version of xmonad-contrib released
on Hackage (0.10).  It looks like it'll be in 0.10.1 though:
http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib/xmonad-contrib.cabal

/M

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