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Sat Jul 17 14:41:31 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102010.html

On 17/07/2010 12:50, Michael Foord wrote:
> On 17/07/2010 12:47, Steve Holden wrote:
>> On 7/17/2010 7:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:05:22 +0300
>>> Tal Einat<taleinat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library.
>>>>
>>>> I have been using IDLE since 2002 and have been doing my best to help
>>>> maintain and further develop IDLE since 2005.
>>> I haven't seen any conclusive statement or action to this thread.
>>> Without being an IDLE user myself (for good reason), I think that if
>>> IDLE should stay, active contributors such as Tal should be given commit
>>> access and enough free rein to maintain and improve it.
>>>
>>> Otherwise there's no reason to continue claiming that IDLE is important
>>> while discouraging such people's contributions. The current situation,
>>> where several core developers support IDLE's continued inclusion but
>>> none actually cares for the issues and patches in the tracker, is
>>> schizophrenic.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Antoine.
>> +1
>>
>> There's no reason why Tal should be obstructed in his goal of making
>> IDLE at least acceptable again. It's fairly obvious thaat there aren't
>> any committers who have both the inclination /and/ the time to do this,
>> so adding Tal (and other interested parties) as a developer makes a lot
>> of sense.
>
> Guilherme's *existing* patch for IDLE looks like it improves it a great
> deal, at the cost of potentially requiring Tk 8.5 (?). Can this just be
> committed?
>
> https://code.google.com/p/python-ttk/wiki/Screenshots
>
> Michael Foord
>
>> regards
>> Steve
>
>

IIRC Terry Reedy is also interested in moving IDLE forward.

Some help will certainly be needed to work on the 3 high, 80 normal and 
13 low priority issues that are open against IDLE on the issue tracker.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.

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