[Idle-dev] Talking of updates to IDLE

[Tal Einat]

I would be willing to help with testing, and have quite some experience with
testing IDLE.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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