<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 17:46, Kurt B. Kaiser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbk@shore.net">kbk@shore.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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He's made the comment a couple of times recently that he doesn't have a<br>
development environment and can't make patches. That's unusual.<br>
However, since IDLE is pure Python, the necessary development<br>
environment is minimal, I'd be happy to help him get set up. I'm pretty<br>
sure he has pretty much everything he needs already.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Terry,</div><div><br></div><div>You might be interested in this doc I just wrote up for the PSF sprint group: <a href="http://docs.pythonsprints.com/core_development/beginners.html">http://docs.pythonsprints.com/core_development/beginners.html</a>. It could use a more accurate/friendly compilation setup for Mac/Linux (I've done it in the past, I just have no idea what I did), but a few interested beginners have looked it over and said it was helpful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Although a Windows development environment can be had with free (as in beer) tools, I can ping our contact at Microsoft for MSDN subscriptions as needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div></div>