Re:XMonad as IDE
by gwern on Friday June 18, 2010 @12:38PM
(#1442768)
> If you'd like to journey down this road and do not want the large ghci dependency look into dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/) (~28KB binary), wmii or awesome.
If you don't like the GHC dependency, then install xmonad & GHC, customize Xmonad to your liking, and then compile your xmonad.hs to a static binary (in the same way you would any other Haskell program). There, now you don't need GHC anymore and can remove it.
(What's that? You lose the ability to customize/recompile your xmonad.hs? But this is exactly true if you replace 'dwm' for 'xmonad' and 'gcc' for 'ghc'. And I'm not sure how one would make a static awesome binary, because of the Lua stuff.)
If you don't like the GHC dependency, then install xmonad & GHC, customize Xmonad to your liking, and then compile your xmonad.hs to a static binary (in the same way you would any other Haskell program). There, now you don't need GHC anymore and can remove it.
(What's that? You lose the ability to customize/recompile your xmonad.hs? But this is exactly true if you replace 'dwm' for 'xmonad' and 'gcc' for 'ghc'. And I'm not sure how one would make a static awesome binary, because of the Lua stuff.)