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

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: I find this behavior a bit awkward. Maybe we should ask first if it's ok to create a new setup.cfg and rename the old one, *before* doing it. -- ___ Python tracker _

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

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Jun 15, 2011, at 02:04 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: >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. Automat

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

Éric Araujo 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 ra

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

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

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw : I have both a setup.py and a setup.cfg in my package. I wanted to use `pysetup create` to add the new packaging stanzas to my setup.cfg, but instead, pysetup clobbered everything. I think it should instead append (or prepend) the new stuff to the existin