[Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Roger Serwy
IDLE Developers, By my count there are over 110 valid open issues against IDLE, some minor and others major. Let's try to make that number smaller. Here is a partial list of issues that have working patches: 3573IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of

Re: [Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Sean Wolfe
Nice to see this mail! I'm a big fan of IDLE though and it's nice to see. I'm not really a IDLE developer yet but I'm boning up on tkinter to try and help out in the future... maybe in time to help out with this. Did you guys catch this article? I think so cause there are a lot of comments. Anyhow

Re: [Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Roger Serwy
I am glad that you are willing to help with fixing IDLE. Tkinter experience is not a strong prerequisite; you can contribute simply by testing patches already provided and giving your feedback. With more reviewers we can iron-out any unanticipated side-effects. I can offer what I know about ID

Re: [Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Sean Wolfe
Got it. Let me read up on idle hacking and familiarize myself with the bug tracker and I'll get back with you. What's idleX? Funny, I was thinking down the line of making my own fork of idle and calling it idleXL . Haha. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Roger Serwy wrote: > I am glad that you

Re: [Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Roger Serwy
IdleX - http://idlex.sourceforge.net It's a collection of extensions and bug fixes for stock IDLE. It is not a fork as much as a wrapper. On 12/12/2011 02:58 PM, Sean Wolfe wrote: Got it. Let me read up on idle hacking and familiarize myself with the bug tracker and I'll get back with you. W

Re: [Idle-dev] Fixing and Improving IDLE

2011-12-12 Thread Sean Wolfe
Ok, you know now, I remember seeing this. It has a lot of the stuff I want to see also, like tabbed windows and reordering. Cool! On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Roger Serwy wrote: > IdleX - http://idlex.sourceforge.net > > It's a collection of extensions and bug fixes for stock IDLE. It is not