[xmonad] 0.5 and packages

[Don Stewart]

nomeata:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 23:07 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Any sight of an xmonad 0.5 package yet? We're losing ground with xmonad
> > on debian, due to the lack of a 0.5 package I think (people building
> > their own or not at all).
> > 
> >     http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=xmonad%2Cawesome%2Cdwm&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2007-09-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
> > 
> > The gentoo guys and arch have just gone ahead (gentoo with cabal 1.2.3,
> > and arch with ghc 6.8.x). Any thoughts on how best to move debian
> > forward?
> 
> Well, I’m still waiting for Igloo for the new ghc6.8 packages. He said
> that he will look for shortly, but he hasn’t done it yet.
> 
> The quickest move for debian, besides having the new ghc packages in
> place, would be a version of xmonad and X11 1.4 that compiles with the
> old Cabal version, but I’m not sure if such a hack is worth the effort.

Oh, hmm, just updating the .cabal file would be trivial.

I'll send you an example. cabal file