[xmonad] Small announce about the completion of the bluetile merge

Adam Vogt vogt.adam at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 19:18:44 EST 2009


* On Monday, December 07 2009, Spencer Janssen wrote:

>In the past we've saved all new features for major releases, with these
>releases fairly far apart.  The next major release of xmonad is 1.0, which
>is potentially months away considering some of the things we have in mind.
>My hunch is that you'd rather not wait so long.
>
>What I propose that we break with precedent a bit and make a 0.9.1 minor
>release with new features.  For a while we've talked about making contrib
>releases independent of core, now seems like a good time to start.

You intend to release contrib with all the changes requiring the
addition of ExtensionClass to core stripped out? That's going to be
quite a bit of useless work, cosidering how widespread the use of
XMonad.Util.ExtensibleState in contrib is:
    - 8 modules directly import ExtensibleState
    - 3 indirectly through XMonad.Util.PositionStore

Of course, you could temporiarily implement ExtensibleState (missing
serialization) using unsafePerformIO and an IORefs, to be compatible
with the 0.9 core, but we've already discussed how unpleasant that
solution is.

--
Adam


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