<div dir="ltr">I would be willing to help with testing, and have quite some experience with testing IDLE.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ned Deily <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nad@acm.org">nad@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In article <<a href="mailto:BANLkTinyoVcZ9nPHMKXZYMOac0YR6RbxUg@mail.gmail.com">BANLkTinyoVcZ9nPHMKXZYMOac0YR6RbxUg@mail.gmail.com</a>>,<br>
<div class="im"> Bruce Sherwood <<a href="mailto:Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu">Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> As far as I know, no. It's a good example of the very slow pace of<br>
> making changes. The VIDLE work was completed by Guilherme Polo in the<br>
> 2009 Google Summer of Code, in a Python-community sanctioned project,<br>
> and Guido has given his blessing to the changes, but the process for<br>
> getting changes into the standard IDLE distribution remains opaque and<br>
> glacial. I gather it isn't anyone's "fault", and people are busy, but<br>
> somehow IDLE is an orphan in comparison with other aspects of Python.<br>
<br>
</div>It's not so much opaque as it is time-consuming and a fair amount of<br>
work. I promised to review them and get them in and I'm still intending<br>
to do that. I'm sorry it's taking this long. For one thing, getting<br>
the 3.2 release out the door turned got in the way. The fixes<br>
themselves need work to be upgraded to the latest releases and then<br>
there is testing that needs to be done on all platforms. If anyone is<br>
willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows<br>
users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.<br>
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Ned Deily,<br>
<a href="mailto:nad@acm.org">nad@acm.org</a><br>
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