Re: PSA for Cabal 2.2 new-* users regarding .ghc.environment files

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Gershom B wrote: > In particular, there is not good information provided by ghc about > when these files are picked up and used. Fwiw, there's already an overdue patch up for that at https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4689 If there's enough

PSA for Cabal 2.2 new-* users regarding .ghc.environment files

There is an important change in the cabal new- commands for 2.2 that the release docs should have highlighted more significantly. Cabal new-* commands now produce a .ghc.environment file by default. These files [1] are picked up by ghc and ghci automatically (since 8.0.1), and allow them to