[Idle-dev] Talking of updates to IDLE

[Ned Deily]

In article <BANLkTinyoVcZ9nPHMKXZYMOac0YR6RbxUg at mail.gmail.com>,
 Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> As far as I know, no. It's a good example of the very slow pace of
> making changes. The VIDLE work was completed by Guilherme Polo in the
> 2009 Google Summer of Code, in a Python-community sanctioned project,
> and Guido has given his blessing to the changes, but the process for
> getting changes into the standard IDLE distribution remains opaque and
> glacial. I gather it isn't anyone's "fault", and people are busy, but
> somehow IDLE is an orphan in comparison with other aspects of Python.

It's not so much opaque as it is time-consuming and a fair amount of 
work.  I promised to review them and get them in and I'm still intending 
to do that.  I'm sorry it's taking this long.  For one thing, getting 
the 3.2 release out the door turned got in the way.  The fixes 
themselves need work to be upgraded to the latest releases and then 
there is testing that needs to be done on all platforms.  If anyone is 
willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows 
users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org