[issue12335] pysetup create will clobber an existing setup.cfg

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

Well, create is not update :)  In its current form, create will save an existing setup.cfg as setup.cfg.old and generate a new one.  The human operator will then have to merge both files if necessary.  Automatically merging the old file into the new one would raise issues with respect to comments, whitespace and all that in Pythons < 3.2.

The doc and help messages are probably unclear about that.

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assignee:  -> tarek
components: +Distutils2 -Library (Lib)
nosy: +alexis, eric.araujo, tarek

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