Javier Neira

And the error should be clear and concide: `The project file misses the required field 'packages'`

> Relevant comment from @gbaz regarding what is the purpose of freeze file : [#8059 (comment)](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/8059#issuecomment-1076892558) . This view is different than what I described in docs -> before merging...

only want to note that symlinking in windows is not reliable in general

hi, after https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/7625 the code started to use `git reset` instead `git checkout` and now the error is different, with this `cabal.project`: ``` packages: . source-repository-package type: git location: https://github.com/georgefst/pretty-simple.git...

@fidel-ml could you share the output of `cabal -v3 v2-update` to have a more detailed trace? Sometimes it is related with the way cabal uses to access internet, by default...

@fidel-ml great! no need for `wget`, `cabal` looks for all possible programs but it is happy to use curl if it is in path

Hmm, the lsp protocol defines some fixed ways for the interaction between the client (editor) and the server. So not always is possible introduce the input of the user in...