[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run requirement

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

Maybe it's a really bad idea. My thinking went along these lines - Scintilla
seems to be getting a lot of support and other tools (Boa and PythonWin) are
using it. Those developers must have thought there was a compelling reason
to do so. If we went with Scintilla, that eliminates the whole text editing
burden and allows the tool to benefit from enhancements to Scintilla that
seem to be coming out at a nice pace. With that eliminated we could
concentrate on extracting the other good bits from IDLE and separating them
from the GUI so that one or more GUI toolkits could be used in addition to
Tkinter. Please understand that I'm just exploring an idea and meant no
disrespect. I can appreciate the effort that has gone into IDLE. Maybe my
suggestion is the wrong way to go about allowing IDLE development to
continue and to accommodate a variety of needs.

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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
Guido van Rossum
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:44 PM
To: pobrien@orbtech.com
Cc: Mats Wichmann; idle-dev@python.org; Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run
requirement

> So what I would propose is a Scintilla-based (for lack of a
> better alternative) IDE that is cross-platform (to the extent possible,
but
> at least Win and Linux and, hopefully, Mac), interactive, easy, helpful
and
> part of the standard distribution. I could help manage the process, but
I'm
> not up to the challenge of doing all the code.

IDLE has most of the functionality (not code folding).

Why start over when there's probably a person-year of work in IDLE?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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