Comments on: Big Things Happen in Linux http://negatendo.net/blog/2008/06/19/big-things-happen-in-linux/ Everywhere with LOLercopter Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Corey O'Connor http://negatendo.net/blog/2008/06/19/big-things-happen-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-53952 Corey O'Connor Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:05:06 +0000 http://negatendo.net/blog/2008/06/19/big-things-happen-in-linux/#comment-53952 I drank the Haskell cool-aid so.... xmonad is "configured" by actually linking the xmonad library against a custom main provided by the user. Resulting in a custom executable that isn't xmonad but a xmonad derived window manager that has been derived according to how the user wants it. Cabal's setup programs also work like this. The simplest is: import Distribution.Simple main = defaultMain Which literally means: Import the Cabal *library* and create a build system based off the main provided by that library. In Yi, the haskell text editor, the method is much the same: The equivalent of the rc file is actually a definition of the user custom version of the software derived from the provided system. I drank the Haskell cool-aid so….
xmonad is “configured” by actually linking the xmonad library against a custom main provided by the user. Resulting in a custom executable that isn’t xmonad but a xmonad derived window manager that has been derived according to how the user wants it.

Cabal’s setup programs also work like this. The simplest is:

import Distribution.Simple
main = defaultMain

Which literally means: Import the Cabal *library* and create a build system based off the main provided by that library.

In Yi, the haskell text editor, the method is much the same: The equivalent of the rc file is actually a definition of the user custom version of the software derived from the provided system.

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