It's sometimes useful to use Stack with a custom version of Cabal. e.g. because a bug has been fixed upstream in master but not yet released on Hackage. Stack has stack setup --upgrade-cabal, which changes the version of Cabal used, "globally". But from what I can tell, there is no way to ask for a custom Cabal.

Something like the following would be nice:

$ stack setup --upgrade-cabal --cabal-sdist URL

Ideally though, this would only apply to the local project, not globally.

Any ideas for workarounds for this in the meantime would be appreciated.

cc @robinbb @facundominguez