[xmonad] automatically generating template xmonad.hs if it doesn't exist

[Brent Yorgey]

On Jan 3, 2008 8:19 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> allbery:
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2008, at 17:19 , Don Stewart wrote:
> >
> > >well, a lot of other apps don't put stub config files in, vim/mutt/ion
> > >etc. they instead document what needs to be done.
> >
> > As a counterexample, last I checked Pine did copy in a default config.
>
> So I'm open to the idea, but need a good story for how to
> avoid *requiring* ghc at runtime. At the moment, as soon as
> you create a config file, xmonad will try to compile it.
>
> If you never customise xmonad, then that runtime dependency isn't
> required. But maybe that doesn't matter?
>

Well, that's a good point. An idea to get around this easily would be to
copy the template to a file called something different (e.g.
xmonad.hs.customize-me) with a comment at the top saying to rename it to
xmonad.hs.  I really can't imagine there will be many (if any) users that
use xmonad without customizing it, though (?).

-Brent
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