Discussion: splitting Cabal and Cabal-syntax into public and private APIs

[geekosaur]

#10259 revealed that Cabal and to a lesser extent Cabal-syntax have very large APIs which are currently completely "public". It would be good to determine which APIs are actually public and move the rest into private libraries. There is some discussion in that issue, but sorting out the API is necessarily going to be a long term effort.

• example 1: compat modules (e.g., shall we encourage tool writers to use base-compat from Hackage instead of our ancient hacks?)
• example 2: cabal-solver API (here the problem was, it seems, enshrining that this is internal, so it suddenly became external; also there seems to be an active user)