Config parse failure

[Allan]

Dear all

Currently if cabal-install encounters a parse failure in the 
configuration file it just uses the default configuration with a 
warning. This seems like the wrong behaviour to me since it is only 
correct if the user was using the default configuration and then updated 
to a newer version of cabal-install which caused the old default-config 
to be syntactically correct. A much more common reason is that the user 
has made an error when editing their config file and in this case using 
the default configuration is almost certainly the wrong thing to do.
Attached is a patch to "die" on configuration parse failure while also 
writing out a default configuration to ~/.cabal/config.default that the 
user can use if they so wish.

regards
allan

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