[Idle-dev] Doc again

[Guido van Rossum]

Bruce,

Why did you repost my reply to the IDLE list?  According to the
headers you sent your response to me only.  I replied to you only,
assuming you didn't want this part of the conversation on the list.
It's normally not done to repost a private conversation on a list.

I care because my tone of voice is different in private than on a
list.

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

> Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] Doc again
> From: Bruce Sherwood <bas@andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: idle <idle-dev@python.org>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:15:14 -0400
> 
> I do have a solution for IDLE and VPython, now incorporated in the VPython 
> installer. I copy index.html to Python.html, thus preserving a user's 
> changes to index.html, and I then overwrite index.html with the VPython 
> page, which includes a link to Python.html.
> 
> But I'm nervous about a solution that seems only to address VPython needs. 
> However, if you're not worried, I guess I shouldn't be!
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> --On Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:28 AM -0400 Guido van Rossum 
> <guido@python.org> wrote:
> 
> >> > So VP should come with a modified configuration.
> >>
> >> Yes, to benefit novices, if we go the way of the IDLE configuration file
> >> for specifying documentation links.
> >
> > As we should.
> >
> >> But I'm arguing that documentation
> >> links are an issue that should be kept separate from IDLE; it's a more
> >> general problem, and the documentation package and issues should for
> >> modularity be separate from the IDLE package and issues, no?
> >
> > Try finding a solution that works for IDLE and VP first.  I'm not sure
> > that we should worry about potential generalizations that nobody has
> > tried yet -- especially since this seems to be a messy area where no
> > obvious solutions immediately pop to mind.
> 
> 
> 
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