[Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE "deemphasised"? Please not so...

[Dethe Elza]

That's great news!  Are the VPython folks listening?

--Dethe

on 01/6/20 11:06 AM, Guido van Rossum at guido@digicool.com wrote:

>> It seems to me that the VPython folk are the perfect ones to pick up the
>> IDLE development reins.  They're actively working on IDLE already, have
>> already implemented the autosave mentioned, as well as some others, and
>> generally seem willing and interested.  I'm not sure what the reasoning is
>> for keeping the VPython IDLE off in its own fork and not bringing it in as
>> the official IDLE, since it is being actively developed.
> 
> I think it was that I wanted to keep control over the direction in
> which IDLE was going.  The idle-fork SourceForge project was created
> so they could do their development.  But I don't think much happened
> there, and I haven't really done much except stifle IDLE development,
> so I'm ready to relax my control.  I do have that subprocess-running
> code which I would like to get worked into IDLE first though...
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
> 

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Dethe Elza 
Chief Mad Scientist
Burning Tiger Technologies