[Idle-dev] Making changes to IDLE

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, jacco.vonk wrote:

> To idle-dev,
> 
> What's the process for suggesting/making changes to the IDLE source?
> For example, I'd like to fix the (relatively simple) problem where you
> can't open modules within packages (in EditorWindow.open_module). I
> downloaded the Python-1.6a2 tarball as apparently IDLE has had a
> complete overhaul. Does this contain the very latest IDLE source code
> (idlver says it's 0.6)?

I've already fixed this problem in my copy; as well as a few other
niggling bugs with windowmanager interaction.  Would you like patches?

> Is there some way to nominate a bug/area which I (or anyone else) wish
> to work on (so that we don't step on each other's toes)? Are there any
> procedures in place for this, and for the contribution of code to the
> development of IDLE?

I'd really like to know that too.  I am slowly but surely forking my
personal copy of IDLE away from the mainstream distribution, and I'm sure
that I'm duplicating work that someone else will have to do eventually.
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