[xmonad] New release

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 10:09:24 UTC 2015


On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Carsten Mattner
> <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some friendly suggestions:
>>
>> I'd very much like to see a release happen this month and start
>> to get into a habit of at least a couple release a year. Infrequent releases
>> may contribute to the perception of Darcs being the reason for
>> project stalls.
>>
>> Someone with good writing skills might also want to communicate
>> the nice Xmonad Prompt modules as advanced replacements for
>> dmenu and one less external dependency and Xmonad-only
>> feature like other window managers that don't require dmenu.
>> Just a thought.
>
> GHC 7.10 is out and Darcs HEAD works. Time for release?
> Communicating the Xmonad Prompt modules is icing on the
> cake best done by someone with good writing skills but not
> blocker for the release.

Don't want to be that guy but what's blocking the release?

>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Carsten Mattner
>> <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 7.10 works for me with Darcs HEAD.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:08 PM, adam vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Certainly. The hard deadline is the ghc-7.10 release which can't compile
>>>> what's currently on hackage. The end of the week seems realistic to check:
>>>>
>>>> Release notes
>>>>
>>>> Broken links in contrib haddocks
>>>>
>>>> That we are compatible with ghc s back to 6.12 or so
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 2, 2015 12:30 PM, "Carsten Mattner" <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
>>>>> > Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>
>>>>> > writes:
>>>>> >> Isn't it time for a new release? Been using xmonad from darcs without
>>>>> >> issues
>>>>> >> for a long time.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > +1.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Also, xmonad-extras needs an update to support recent versions of
>>>>> > libmpd.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can we cut a release?
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