[Idle-dev] Suggestions idle-dev

[phil jones]

I agree. It would be nice to get into hacking on Idle, but I've never
really found my way into it.

A couple of things. Is there a source-code repository on Github (or
some Mercurial equivalent) where everyone can see the
work-in-progress?

Is IDLE still part of the Python standard package? I use Ubuntu and I
always find I have to install Idle separately from Python. I don't
know if this is a Ubuntu perversity or whether Idle is now a
stand-alone thing. Given that people always seem to have problems
getting patches into the standard distribution maybe stand-alone would
be better. But who would make this decision?

I don't have a problem with a mailing list. But I agree, a URL to an
idle-dev central (place for developers hang out with links to this
mailing list, the repository, IRC etc.) would be great.

phil

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:07 AM, phelix <nabble at traction.de> wrote:
>
> Over the last couple of months I have collected a couple of small but imho
> important modifications / bugs to make working with IDLE smoother. But I
> would prefer very much to discuss these in a more active environment.
>
> Taking part in IDLE-development seems very hard, though it really does not
> have to be. On the code-side everything is fine but marketing-wise things
> are not so good. Just take this mailing list. I am in my thirties and to me
> it looks like from the stone age. Who wants his eMail-account spammed with a
> mailing list? I would prefer a regular forum and I think a lot of people
> would, especially the younger ones.
>
> Also this list is hard to find. It is not mentioned anywhere on the
> idle-homepage and not very obvious in the program.
>
> Compare the spyder homepage and the idle-homepage:
> http://packages.python.org/spyder/ http://packages.python.org/spyder/
> http://docs.python.org/library/idle.html
> http://docs.python.org/library/idle.html
> I am not talking about fancy graphics but only missing information.
>
> Why not display something in the splash-screen like: idle development is
> easy, contribute at ...
>
> I really like working with IDLE and it being coded in Python and easy to
> modify and all but seing how slow it is improving makes me sad. Especially
> the small things count for a smooth workflow.
>
> Very many people start out with IDLE and it is a missed chance to give them
> an unsmooth IDE.
>
> best,
>
> =Phelix=
>
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