[xmonad] Modular config

[Isaac Dupree]

Spencer Janssen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:12:08PM -0600, Justin Bogner wrote:
>> recompile calls ghc --make, but supplies the -i argument, which 
>> suppresses including the current directory in the search path. This means 
>> that one can't break up xmonad.hs into modules in their own .xmonad 
>> directory.
>>
>> I don't see any particularly good reason to prevent this, so here's a 
>> patch that removes the -i argument. An equivalent change would be to 
>> change "-i" to "-i.", which explicitly sets the search path, but the ghc 
>> docs state that this is the default anyway, so I think that removing it 
>> makes more sense.
> 
> This is not compatible with case-insensitive file systems, such as those on OS
> X.  When the user writes 'import XMonad', GHC will attempt to use
> ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs rather than the installed library module.

Couldn't we have it search first in the XMonad-libraries, and then in 
the current directory if a module wasn't found there?  Does GHC support 
this?

-Isaac