[xmonad] Re: darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Hello,

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> That's a good point; I hadn't thought of the name conflict. Between
> that and Brandon's security point (ghc might not reuse those files
> depending on how it checks for existing files, and one could probably
> solve it by forcing recompilation), I guess this isn't a good idea;
> I've marked it rejected on darcswatch.
> 
> So, we could either wait until GHC implements and widely releases some
> -remove-intermediates option, or we could just go with Joachim's old
> strategy of manually removing the intermediates in .xmonad/:
> http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/bundles/8e8ad2f4b141e33c06490e60b15f3191f84a5cc0.dpatch
>
> [...]
>
> So. Thoughts on *that*?

This patch won't work for people using stuff in ~/.xmonad/lib. Somehow I feel
that this should be fixed in GHC.

(Personally, I don't care. I use a makefile instead of --recompile anyway.)

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/