[Idle-dev] Startup Shell Functionality

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I've never used the setup.py script to *install* IDLE.  
> 
> You should try it, it works great! Just go "python setup.py
> install", and it moves everything to the standard places including
> the help.txt file.

I believe you, but when developing it's a pain when you have to
install something before you can test it.  We're being very careful
that Python itself can be run directly from the build directory, and
until you added "idles", the same was true for IDLE!  I want that
property back, it's useful.  (Sorry for not making this clear.)

> > AFAIK no other idle start script references idlelib, it's only
> > created by the installer.
> 
> The idle script is part of the source, loewis modified it five months ago to
> "Allow installation of IDLE via distutils (patch #103138)."

Ah, I see.  I've always just used idle.py.  Note that importing
IdleConf is no longer needed, I think.

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