cabal new-build --help says default build-dir is dist/

[quasicomputational]

That's a lie: it should be dist-newstyle/. I started chasing this up but I got lost in the twisty maze of option parsing.

[typedrat]

This be a massive undertaking to fix, having investigated it. The issue is that the new- commands reuse a bunch of old Flags types that include optionDistPref that assumes it's dist and there's no easy way to fix it without somewhat heavy refactoring.

[hvr]

fwiw, dist-newstyle is supposed to be renamed to dist when new-build becomes build; so I'm not sure this is of much priority. Originally, it was named differently from dist to avoid old-build and new-build stepping on each other's toes but in hindsight it might not have been necessary.

[typedrat]

I'm gonna say that makes this a WONTFIX.