[IPython-dev] UNC readline and ipython

[Jörgen Stenarson]

Fernando Perez skrev:
> Ville Vainio wrote:
>> On 1/21/06, Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I didn't, we should probably drop him a line once the merge starts.  Ville,
>>> Vivian, Jorgen (our pyreadline team :): can one of you contact him and perhaps
>>> arrange for his patches to come through as well?
>>
>> Damn, I pressend "send" accidentally.
>>
>> My suggestion is, since there seems to be a handful of work with
>> pyreadline after all, you could give SVN access to one extra person -
>> Jorgen asked for them so he seems like a good bet. If Jorgen is
>> willing to take up the task, of course.
> 
> Jorgen, interested?  I'd be happy to give you SVN access if you will really 
> work on this, though I'd ask you that in the beginning, you limit commits to 
> the readline area.  
I'm interested. I'll limit myself to the readline area, at the moment 
that is my main interest anyway.


>The ipython codebase is messy and brittle, so it's quite 
> easy to break things you don't know well.  If you want to make non-trivial 
> commits elsewhere, it's a good idea to first run the patch by the list (even 
> if you end up being the one applying it, we can thus review it on-list 
> beforehand).
> 
> Also, as we get more people actually working on ipython itself, code style 
> consistency becomes more important.  Whether you are committing directly or 
> sending patches, please take a moment to read, and actually FOLLOW:
> 
> http://projects.scipy.org/ipython/ipython/wiki/DeveloperGuidelines
> 
> Clear, consistenly styled code is important, as it makes the mental flow over 
> a large codebase function much more smoothly.  Feel free to comment on these 
> if you feel that any of it is either over the top, or missing something important.

As one of the first steps I will make the pythonreadline conform to the 
4 space indent policy.

/Jörgen