Re: cabal new-* commands awesomeness

Hi, On 19 September 2016 at 08:46, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:

1. Will the `new' variants become the default? That will be nice!

Yes, that's the plan. This won't happen in the next release (2.0), though.

2. I would like to contribute to Cabal project (especially after the recent "discussions" on reddit and elsewhere on cabal vs stack etc..). Are there "byte-sized" projects for people unfamiliar with Cabal source code to look at?

Great, welcome onboard. Take a look at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/labels/meta%3A%20easy. See also https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Hackathon2015#more-modest-projects.

3. Is there an irc channel where cabal devs hang out?

See https://github.com/haskell/cabal#communicating.