<div dir="ltr">Please post your project link here once you have it up and ready, and let us know how your changes to IDLE help your classes. Enjoy!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ether.joe@gmail.com" target="_blank">ether.joe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Awesome thanks for your response Mr. BDFL.<br>
<br>
I am actually using this in an educational context at a community<br>
center here in Oakland. So it's a case where education wants the fork,<br>
haha. And I'm hoping that some of our young programmers are future<br>
Python core developers :)<br>
<br>
Cheers !!<br>
<span class=""><br>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> The PSF license indeed allows this. (Note that "Python GPL license" is<br>
> incorrect usage -- the PSF license is most definitely not the GPL -- that's<br>
> "Gnu Public License", a totally different license.) GitHub is a fine<br>
> platform for this.<br>
><br>
> Note that you're effectively forking IDLE this way -- it may not be easy to<br>
> get the changes that you applied here accepted back into the CPython repo,<br>
> because of backward compatibility concerns (it's easy to apply a change that<br>
> breaks on some platform you've never heard of, or for some user whose<br>
</span>> workflow is different than yours -- see also <a href="https://xkcd.com/1172/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/1172/</a>).<br>
<span class="">> Personally, I think it's fine to fork IDLE, and I think eventually it should<br>
> be removed from the stdlib -- but this is controversial, as educators often<br>
> are forced to rely on the IDLE that is bundled with the Python installer.<br>
> But that's a longer discussion.<br>
><br>
</span>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <<a href="mailto:ether.joe@gmail.com">ether.joe@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span class="">> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hello IDLE-ers,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm considering putting a copy of the idle code on github, to leverage<br>
>> the excellent tools that platform provides and be able to incorporate<br>
>> various fixes that have been discussed but not implemented in the<br>
>> standard distribution as of yet.<br>
>><br>
>> The Python GPL license is pretty simple and from my reading, grants<br>
>> the ability to do this as long as I include a copyright notice.<br>
>><br>
>> A few questions then:<br>
>> a) does anybody think it's illegal to do ?<br>
>> b) would it help make idle improvements easier to access ?<br>
>> c) is there a better platform, ie. launchpad or bitbucket?<br>
>><br>
>> I have used bitbucket for pygame, and although the toolset isn't as<br>
>> easy to use, maybe it makes sense.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm curious to hear what you all think about this.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,<br>
>> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.<br>
>> - Abraham Maslow<br>
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> --<br>
> --Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)<br>
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--<br>
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,<br>
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.<br>
- Abraham Maslow<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div>
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