Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In response to Nick's point 4: To me, these are important aspects of 'in the stdlib'.
First is having issues on this tracker. As Guido said in his King Day speech, non-trivial software is a collective project. IDLE needs continued access to dependency experts, such as Serhiy for tkinter, and platform experts, such as Ned for Mac. In April, I nosyed Kristján Valur Jónsson to ask an IDLE question that seemed related to a socket patch he pushed, and he helpfully answered. On the other side, users are much more likely to participate here than on a separate tracker. Second is being easily installable with the rest of Python. I think some out-of-the-box augment to the console is crucial on Windows. I am aware that Linux distributions have a separate tkinter-gui install instead of just a checkbox option. I think it should consistently, on all plateforms, comprise _tkinter, tkinter, idlelib, turtle, and turtledemo. All of those except idlelib are documented even though optional. So I think idlelib could be also. But documenting direct usage, which Nick recommended in #24225, could be relegated to the modules themselves and the idlelib README or a new text file. Ditto for indicating replacements for thing known or strongly suspected of external use. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26993> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
