It's maybe not the right place to discuss that, but why is IDLE part of the Python stdlib? Can't we maintain IDLE outside Python? I guess that maintaining it outside the stdlib would allow to develop it faster and be able to upgrade it for old (unmaintained) Python versions.
Packaging Python with IDLE is stil a good idea, especially on Windows where there is no good text editor by default.
Victor
2013/3/19 Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>:
I would like to propose Roger Serwy be given commit privileges to work on IDLE. Roger has demonstrated long-term interest in IDLE and has been contributing to IDLE in a number of ways for years. He has submitted many patches for IDLE to the tracker since at least April 2008. He has developed a number of IDLE extensions (http://idlex.sourceforge.net), some of which he has proposed for inclusion in the standard library. He is also active in triaging and commenting on the bug tracker and has had developer privileges on the tracker for the past 12 months. He has also already signed the contributor agreement and I know he has been interested in becoming a core developer for IDLE. I've informally discussed this with a few other core developers here at PyCon and I think there is general agreement that having Roger be able to contribute more directly to IDLE would be a really good thing. I would certainly be willing to help mentor him as necessary.
-- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org
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