Patch to read package-specific cabal-install config

[Erik Hesselink]

Hi Carl,

At Silk, we use a private hackage. You can just enter it in your main
cabal config (~/.cabal/config) as an extra entry:

remote-repo: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
remote-repo: <our-hackage-name>:<our-hackage-url>

The only thing that doesn't work well, is the username/password for
'cabal upload': these are not per remote repo, but they should be.

Hope this helps,

Erik

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 23:27, Carl Baatz <carl.baatz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> for packages that aren't for public consumption, we would like to specify a
> private Hackage repo location. The simplest way we could think of to do this
> was to read a config file in the same format as the user config
> (~/.cabal/config) from the current directory and let any flags set in that
> file override the user config.
>
> The attached patch implements this, reading any file with a .cabal-install
> extension (including '.cabal-install'). It errors out if more than one
> .cabal-install file is found or if there's a parse error on the
> .cabal-install file.
>
> Does this sound like a good idea? If not, any ideas for alternative ways of
> handling non-public packages?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Carl
>
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