<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Devin Mullins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@twifkak.com" target="_blank">me@twifkak.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Some situations? As in some platforms that don't carry TH because of a</div>
dependence on some ghci code?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>TH and ghci both rely on a bytecode Haskell interpreter which maintains its own linker and some other infrastructure; *that* is the fundamental reason why both ghci and TH are not available on some platforms.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We try to keep the dependencies for xmonad-contrib to some sort of minimum and bump anything else to xmonad-extras. I'm not sure this is a scalable answer (once we get enough things in -extras that it starts sprouting bizarre dependencies out all corners) but pulling it all back into -contrib isn't the answer.</div>
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