haskell / haskell/cabal

`cabal user-config diff` returns garbage on windows

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cabal-install: cmd/user-config platform: windows type: bug
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Description

Add the following to global `cabal.config`:

```
extra-include-dirs: C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\include
extra-lib-dirs: C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\lib
extra-prog-path: C:\ghcup\bin,
C:\cabal\bin,
C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\bin,
C:\ghcup\msys64\usr\bin
```

`cabal user-config diff` will return:

```
+ C: \ghcup\msys64\usr\bin
+ extra-include-dirs: C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\include
+ extra-lib-dirs: C:\ghcup\msys64\mingw64\lib
+ extra-prog-path: C:\ghcup\bin,
```

cabal-install version 3.10.2.1.

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