I've got some free time on my hands and I now have permission to make commits for IDLE, so I'll take a look at it today.
- Tal On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks very much you for your perseverance. It sounds like the money > on the GSOC student was well spent. Thanks also for observing novices > and fixing the issues that cause them the most pain! Hopefully someone > will review and commit the patches soon! > > --Guido > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bashe...@ncsu.edu> wrote: >> With great help from Tal Einat on the mechanics of how to submit >> Guilherme Polo's enhancements, I've presented a diff file to >> bugs.python.org against the Python 3.1.2 version of idlelib (tag >> r312). >> >> Here's the description: >> >> In December 2008 David Scherer created an alternative version >> of IDLE to fix some long-standing problems. In the 2009 Google >> Summer of Code Guilherme Polo continued this work, assisted by >> Bruce Sherwood. Important new fixes and features include: >> >> * A configuration preference that permits writing and running >> test programs from the editor without having to save the file >> (you're warned upon quitting whether to save). >> >> * Bringing the shell window forward in case of an error (because >> novices often failed to realize why their program had stopped). >> * A revert plug-in (FileRevert.py). >> >> * Unreliable and slow termination of user program on Windows; >> now you can re-run without first closing the graphics window. >> >> * Missing preferences and other menus on Macintosh. >> >> * Use any port for RPC server, so multiple instances of VIDLE >> can run at the same time without interference. >> >> Polo submitted patches at the end of the summer of 2009, found at >> code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-python/downloads/list >> This was for the Python 2.X series. >> >> Because the mechanism was not clear for getting these patches >> into the version of IDLE distributed with Python, the patched >> version has been distributed with VPython (vpython.org) with >> the name VIDLE to attempt to avoid confusion with IDLE. It is >> installed into site-packages. >> >> In October 2010 Bruce Sherwood manually applied Polo's patches >> to the idlelib found at >> svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r312/Lib/idlelib >> >> In addition to applying Polo's patches, the new code uses the new >> dot addressing of modules (e.g. from . import PyShell). Except for >> having to change one absolute address in the use of __import__ in >> PyShell.py, this version can work either in Python31/Lib/idlelib or >> in Python31/Lib/site-packages/vidle. This VIDLE will be included in >> the installer for VPython for Python 3. >> _______________________________________________ >> IDLE-dev mailing list >> IDLE-dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
