It's maybe not the right place to discuss that, but why is IDLE part of the Python stdlib? Can't we maintain IDLE outside Python? I guess that maintaining it outside the stdlib would allow to develop it faster and be able to upgrade it for old (unmaintained) Python versions.
Packaging Python with IDLE is stil a good idea, especially on Windows where there is no good text editor by default. Victor 2013/3/19 Ned Deily <n...@acm.org>: > I would like to propose Roger Serwy be given commit privileges to work > on IDLE. Roger has demonstrated long-term interest in IDLE and has been > contributing to IDLE in a number of ways for years. He has submitted > many patches for IDLE to the tracker since at least April 2008. He has > developed a number of IDLE extensions (http://idlex.sourceforge.net), > some of which he has proposed for inclusion in the standard library. He > is also active in triaging and commenting on the bug tracker and has had > developer privileges on the tracker for the past 12 months. He has also > already signed the contributor agreement and I know he has been > interested in becoming a core developer for IDLE. I've informally > discussed this with a few other core developers here at PyCon and I > think there is general agreement that having Roger be able to contribute > more directly to IDLE would be a really good thing. I would certainly > be willing to help mentor him as necessary. > > -- > Ned Deily, > n...@acm.org > > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers