id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
556	local config files	guest		"It would be nice if I could locally (for a project/directory) store the options I want to pass to ""cabal configure"".

An example use case would be in the darcs project which has a flag ""-ftype-witnesses"".  We don't want to inflict this on most users because it increases our compile time, but for developers of certain branches of darcs want to be systematically using this flag so that they can catch errors. These developers could just ""cabal configure -ftype-witnesses"", but then if they do a ""cabal clean"" for any reason, the next time they run ""cabal configure"", they may forget to pass the flag along.

To be clear, this is something to be used by individual developers; it's not something we want for the .cabal file itself.  Duncan says that this would be a bit like a local .ghci file, if it helps."	enhancement	new	normal	cabal-install-0.16	cabal-install tool	1.6.0.1	normal				normal