[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run r equirement

[Israel Evans]

What would switching over to using Scintilla accomplish that sticking with
IDLE and continuing it's development wouldn't?


-----Original Message-----
From: Guido van Rossum [mailto:guido@digicool.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:44 PM
To: pobrien@orbtech.com
Cc: Mats Wichmann; idle-dev@python.org; Python Edu SIG; Python Tutor
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run
requirement


> So what I would propose is a Scintilla-based (for lack of a
> better alternative) IDE that is cross-platform (to the extent possible,
but
> at least Win and Linux and, hopefully, Mac), interactive, easy, helpful
and
> part of the standard distribution. I could help manage the process, but
I'm
> not up to the challenge of doing all the code.

IDLE has most of the functionality (not code folding).

Why start over when there's probably a person-year of work in IDLE?

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

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