Re: Cabal woes

Hi, On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 23:56, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:

That’s a tremendously helpful summary, thank you Iavor. And Michail’s summary was also very helpful.

Most of this is doubtless well-known to habitual cabal users, but it might be useful to explain the user model, in a way that covers these points, somewhere close to the Cabal home page.

If anyone reading this is interested in helping out with website and documentation, we'll gladly accept PRs. Documentation for Cabal lives at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/master/Cabal/doc and the website sources are at https://github.com/haskell/cabal-website/ (see also the feature/next branch).