[Idle-dev] CVS: idle BrowserControl.py,1.1.3.1,1.2

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

"Fred L. Drake" <fdrake@acm.org> writes:
>   Do Linux users really expect a GUI IDE other than
> Emacs/XEmacs?  They shouldn't!  ;-)

Does Emacs run a debugger on Python in a separate process? ;-) I just run IDLE
and several Emacs windows on three desktops....

>   Seriously, I think it should be installed.  I'm not sure
> exactly where all the IDLE modules should go (/usr/lib/idle/
> ?), but it would be nice.  

Distutils seem to take care of all of that on Linux, you go python setup.py and
the files are installed in the canonical places under site-packages. It may be
one line of code in the installation scripts to set this up.

And if the Windows Python directory tree becomes the same as Linux's, then you
have simplification and less maintenance....

> If it could include a .desktop
> file for Gnome/KDE, that would be nice as well.
>   If no noe has one already, I'll take a look at writing one
> -- it shouldn't be too painful, and I think I have the info
> about how to do that somewhere.
> 

That would be nifty. Things should be as easy (and snazzy?) as possible, so
when everyone dumps XP we'll be waiting =)

Regards, KBK