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*(live testing as requested in cabal-dev meet)* I can confirm that on my dev machine, with GHC not in `PATH`, `cabal update`: - in `master` complains about missing GHC; -...

This patch should not change the program (`cabal-install`) output, if it does it is a bug! Or am I misreading you?

Just to clarify what the patch does, there are no new error messages. We are simply replacing occourrences of `show` with pretty-print functions. In the future we might want to...

Same goes for `benchmark` stanza.

This is how they are divided in ``cabal help`` ``` [global] update Updates list of known packages. install Install packages. help Help about commands. info Display detailed information about a...

Once #8309 is closed and this is closed, I definitely can!

Guidelines on how/when to squash stuff — as we have for commit messages — would be useful indeed. If there is an external, authoritative source we could leech from that.

I have added a small comment, also there are some failures in CI, do you need help with those (doctest, etc)?

Seems a connection timed out, not your fault. There are compilation erros in your patch tho, fix those and you should be fine.

Maybe 32259a1518? https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/32259a1518d45723b0bbf989088bee61b07d4bb6/cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/ProjectPlanning.hs#L336 and https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/32259a1518d45723b0bbf989088bee61b07d4bb6/cabal-install/src/Distribution/Client/ProjectPlanning.hs#L419-L423 Follow the trail and you will end up with the dreaded `requireProgramVersion`.