r wrote:
On Jan 14, 4:43 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
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I think the 'main' IDLE maintainer is no longer active. I think someone
who would do more than fix critical bugs might be welcome.
Hello Terry,
That's what i was beginning to think. I am not quite ready (as far as
my skills are concerned) to put out something that would be as useful
to many people. I could hack together something real quick for myself.
This is why i am looking for like-minded people who would be
interested in this. I have the foresight and willpower at this point
to contribute something meaningful to the Python community -- to give
back.
If you are willing and able to channel your obvious enthusiasm and
energy into incremental improvements, you could make meaningful
contributions within weeks and months. If you go to
http://bugs.python.org/iss...@template=search&status=1
and select IDLE in the 'Components' field and hit 'Search',
you will get a list of (at the moment) 66 open issues. Some are bug
reports, some feature requests. Some have patches waiting for review
and some not. There may be some (near?) duplicate and obsolete items
that could be closed after review. Pick one issue and help resolve it.
Reviewing exiting patches would be definitely helpful. For instance, I
would particularly like to see
http://bugs.python.org/issue2704
Patch to make PyShell behave more like a Terminal interface
tested and applied. It was posted last April and revised in June.
Should you decide to do this, and wish further input from me, let me
know, on or off list.
OFF-TOPIC:(but related)
What is the state of Tkinter at this point. Is an active effort under
way to port TK 8.5 into Python? Tkinter and IDLE are very important to
Python, but i understand there are much more important areas where the
GURU's are concentrating. Should there be a calling for "others" to
get involved here? I would like to help out.
Running a search from the same page for '8.5' in the 'All text' box gave
no hits. I would tend to expect that 8.5 upgrades to tkinter would be
welcome at some point, but anyone actively ready to work on it could
open a tracker issue or inquire on py-dev first.
Terry Jan Reedy
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