[Xmonad] dynamic configuration? (e.g. hsplugins)

[David Roundy]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:39:43AM +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > It'd be nice to know that there's a plan (or at least desire) to make
> > xmonad useable by folks who aren't willing to compile their own software,
> > and who don't think that one copy of each program per user is a good idea.
> 
> There's some desire, but it is balanced by the constraint that existing
> extensible systems in Haskell aren't really suitable: either too
> heavyweight (hs-plugins, ghc-api) or not supporting the language (YHC).
> 
> Also, these are all relatively more unstable solutions. If something
> changes in this area, we can look again at it.

In what sense are hs-plugins and ghc-api too heavyweight? In the sense of
memory-use and efficiency, or the sense of API complexity?

If it's the former, I'd say it doesn't much matter.  If it's the latter,
then that's a real problem, and someone ought to come up with a simple API
to hs-plugins to enable the use of Haskell as a scripting language.  I sort
of thought that this was what hs-plugins was (a stable easy-to-program
layer over ghc-api).
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University