As we keep inching towards cabal-install-3.4 release (the last known external blocker) I want to raise awareness of the changes coming to xmonad users with custom xmonad.hs files as part of this update. I've known and mentioned this change a few times on ports@ but it bears repeating explicitly.
Primary reason for this change is each binary Haskell port will be built hermetically. The notion of hs-libraries ports will disappear. Hence such custom xmonad configurations will have to rely on Custom Build Scripts[0]. This reference is a part of MESSAGE which also points at the installed example files that I've been using for many months. This is the same approach that FreeBSD ports have taken. To make it abundantly clear, the change is not without some downsides for the user. Cabal has to be available (e.g. from the port). GHC too (same as before). The first rebuild will be slower as cabal will be warming up its build cache and potentially downloading hackage index and some sources. Usability will be somewhat lacking though if somebody feels ambitious the sample script could be improved with xmessage/xterm to provide better UX. The main goal of my message is informational. I also would like to learn about any other xmonad users with custom configs on OpenBSD. [0]https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-testing/ Thanks Greg
