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* Remove 'CommandDelegate' in favour of abstracting the fallback in
  'commandsRun', there is a new variant 'commdandRunWithFallback' which
  takes a continuation
  - This restores the modularity between the `Cabal` library and
    `cabal-install` as now `Cabal` doesn't need to know anything about
    the external command interface.
  - Fixes #9403
* Set the $CABAL environment variable to the current executable path
  - This allows external commands to be implemented by calling $CABAL,
    which is strongly preferred to linking against the Cabal library as
    there is no easy way to guantee your tool and `cabal-install` link
    against the same `Cabal` library.
  - Fixes #9402
* Pass the name of the argument
  - This allows external commands to be implemented as symlinks to an
    executable, and multiple commands can be interpreted by the same
    executable.
  - Fixes #9405
* `cabal help <cmd>` is interpreted as `cabal-<cmd> --help` for external
  commands.
  - This allows the `help` command to also work for external
  commands and hence they are better integrated into cabal-install.
  - Fixes #9404

The tests are updated to test all these additions.

These features bring the external command interface up to par with the
cargo external command interface.
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