[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:22:28PM +0300, Tal Einat wrote:
> Initially (five years ago!) I tried to overcome these issues by
> improving IDLE, solving problems and adding a few key features.
> Without going into details, suffice to say that IDLE hasn't improved
> much since 2005 despite my efforts. For example, see

Is it maybe time for another idle-fork project to develop IDLE outside
the stdlib for a while, and then the forked version could be swallowed
wholesale by the Python 3.2 release?

--amk