[Idle-dev] mods?
Bruce Sherwood
bas@andrew.cmu.edu
Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:50:13 -0400
Thanks for the explanation of the process.
As far as I can tell from testing, the current download idlefork-0.8.1.zip,
plus my changes, is equivalent to the original Scherer version (plus bug
fixes). So after just a bit more testing I intend to replace the original
version with the new one in VPython distributions.
Bruce Sherwood
--On Friday, October 05, 2001 00:21 +1000 "Stephen M. Gava"
<elguavas@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> It's good to have some direct input from the Vpython neck of the woods
> again. In regard to this :
>
>> My goal is that in the future all VPython distributions include the
>> idlefork version of idle, rather than the older version originally due to
>> Dave Scherer, from which idlefork development started.
>
> Please take into account the fact that IDLEfork is temporarily in a
> 'treading water' mode. Also you should consider that although it is an
> aim to have stable releases of IDLEfork, at the moment it's alpha, and
> the future target for full stability will be a version of Python's
> official IDLE with the IDLEfork changes folded in. Anyway, the main
> point is, all help greatly appreciated.