Project Configuration does not preserve comments in `platformio.ini`

Behaviour Change Request

I think this may go in the ‘too hard basket’ … but still have to ask 😉

The (fantastic, btw!) project configuration GUI does some… Makes some questionable changes to the platformio.ini configuration file. I shorten the header text on a lot of mine, and also comment my libdeps lines, but by …

1. opening the configurator
2. adding a description
3. hitting save

… this removes the comments, and re-adds the full header to the file. Also, as noted by another user, it sometimes adds

lib_archive = yes
test_build_project_src = no

on it’s own, even though these options haven’t been touched.

So is it possible to not change lines if they haven’t been modified… i.e. don’t strip the comments, and perhaps not make changes to the header.

[ivankravets]

Sorry, now I understand. You can use custom fields in environment sections. Just add custom_ prefix. For example, custom_env_comment = Simple MCVE environment.

[TD-er]

Ahhh, formatting? We do not do this. We use native Python’s ConfigParser to save the configuration in a raw INI file. They know better how to do this.

Nope, that’s also not what I meant. See these added (not existing) parameters:

env_comment = Simple MCVE environment
env_description = Simple MCVE environment to build POC for new reported issues

Just to make sure it is not about formatting, I removed the spaces 😉