Except that the VPython folks have a design goal that is quite tangential to IDLE's. They need a tool to support their visual python modules (which allow the manipulation of 3D objects and should not to be confused with ActiveState's IDE) and the teaching of physics. While I do think their needs should be accomodated, I don't know that they would want to be responsible for IDLE development as a whole. (But I could be wrong.) I've added them to the recipients of this message. We'll see if they respond. (The vpython list has been quiet lately.) --- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech "I am, therefore I think." -----Original Message----- From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Dethe Elza Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:20 PM To: IDLE Developers List Cc: Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor Subject: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE "deemphasised"? Please not so... That's great news! Are the VPython folks listening? --Dethe on 01/6/20 11:06 AM, Guido van Rossum at guido@digicool.com wrote:
It seems to me that the VPython folk are the perfect ones to pick up the IDLE development reins. They're actively working on IDLE already, have already implemented the autosave mentioned, as well as some others, and generally seem willing and interested. I'm not sure what the reasoning is for keeping the VPython IDLE off in its own fork and not bringing it in as the official IDLE, since it is being actively developed.
I think it was that I wanted to keep control over the direction in which IDLE was going. The idle-fork SourceForge project was created so they could do their development. But I don't think much happened there, and I haven't really done much except stifle IDLE development, so I'm ready to relax my control. I do have that subprocess-running code which I would like to get worked into IDLE first though...
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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