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

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

Except that the VPython folks have a design goal that is quite tangential to
IDLE's. They need a tool to support their visual python modules (which allow
the manipulation of 3D objects and should not to be confused with
ActiveState's IDE) and the teaching of physics. While I do think their needs
should be accomodated, I don't know that they would want to be responsible
for IDLE development as a whole. (But I could be wrong.)

I've added them to the recipients of this message. We'll see if they
respond. (The vpython list has been quiet lately.)
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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
Dethe Elza
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:20 PM
To: IDLE Developers List
Cc: Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor
Subject: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE "deemphasised"? Please
not so...

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/)
>
>

--

Dethe Elza
Chief Mad Scientist
Burning Tiger Technologies



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