[Idle-dev] put idle on github?

[Guido van Rossum]

Please post your project link here once you have it up and ready, and let
us know how your changes to IDLE help your classes. Enjoy!

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether.joe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Awesome thanks for your response Mr. BDFL.
>
> I am actually using this in an educational context at a community
> center here in Oakland. So it's a case where education wants the fork,
> haha. And I'm hoping that some of our young programmers are future
> Python core developers :)
>
> Cheers !!
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
> > The PSF license indeed allows this. (Note that "Python GPL license" is
> > incorrect usage -- the PSF license is most definitely not the GPL --
> that's
> > "Gnu Public License", a totally different license.) GitHub is a fine
> > platform for this.
> >
> > Note that you're effectively forking IDLE this way -- it may not be easy
> to
> > get the changes that you applied here accepted back into the CPython
> repo,
> > because of backward compatibility concerns (it's easy to apply a change
> that
> > breaks on some platform you've never heard of, or for some user whose
> > workflow is different than yours -- see also https://xkcd.com/1172/).
> > Personally, I think it's fine to fork IDLE, and I think eventually it
> should
> > be removed from the stdlib -- but this is controversial, as educators
> often
> > are forced to rely on the IDLE that is bundled with the Python installer.
> > But that's a longer discussion.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether.joe at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello IDLE-ers,
> >>
> >> I'm considering putting a copy of the idle code on github, to leverage
> >> the excellent tools that platform provides and be able to incorporate
> >> various fixes that have been discussed but not implemented in the
> >> standard distribution as of yet.
> >>
> >> The Python GPL license is pretty simple and from my reading, grants
> >> the ability to do this as long as I include a copyright notice.
> >>
> >> A few questions then:
> >> a) does anybody think it's illegal to do ?
> >> b) would it help make idle improvements easier to access ?
> >> c) is there a better platform, ie. launchpad or bitbucket?
> >>
> >> I have used bitbucket for pygame, and although the toolset isn't as
> >> easy to use, maybe it makes sense.
> >>
> >> I'm curious to hear what you all think about this.
> >>
> >> --
> >> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
> >> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
> >> - Abraham Maslow
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>
>
>
> --
> A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
> if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
> - Abraham Maslow
>



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