Xmonad is out of date

[darealdrzoidberg]

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current version: 0.15 desired version: 0.17

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[jyooru]

maintainers: @peti

[prusnak]

There is already xmonad_0_17_0 in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix

[jakobneufeld]

How do I use xmonad _0_17_0 services.x11.windowManager.xmonad

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[peti]

Ping @NixOS/haskell.

[sternenseemann]

How do I use xmonad _0_17_0 services.x11.windowManager.xmonad

It doesn't seem to be possible easily with how the module is implemented at the moment. You could try using an overlay like this:

self: super: {
  haskellPackages = super.haskellPackages.override {
    overrides = hself: hsuper: {
     xmonad = self.xmonad_0_17_0;
     xmonad-contrib = self.xmonad-contrib_0_17_0;
     xmonad-extras = self.xmonad-extras_0_17_0;
    };
  };
}

The default xmonad version will change as soon as stackage (lts atm) changes it. We could contemplate ignoring stackage for xmonad to have a more cutting edge version, but this likely means more maintenance work.

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/use-latest-version-of-xmonad-0-17-0/16191/2

[cdepillabout]

I'm going to close this, since it is currently "by design", since we pin to packages in stackage, and xmonad is in stackage.