hackport-0.3.6: cabal/HACKING
If you want to hack on Cabal, don't be intimidated!
Read the guide to the source code:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Source-Guide
Subscribe to the mailing list:
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
Browse the list of open issues:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues
There are other resources listed on the dev wiki:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ (old wiki)
In particular, the open tickets and the cabal-devel mailing list
which is a good place to ask questions.
Dependencies policy
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Cabal's policy is to support being built by versions of GHC that are up
to 3 years old.