Ned Deily's note (repeated here) made me think that I should not submit a patch for 2.7 because he has reason to believe that the problems aren't with IDLE.
Bruce Sherwood ---------------------------------------- In article <aanlktikfi_3ch1gwexy4tqemj-1qjkn4wjoo+coij...@mail.gmail.com>, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Is there any chance of getting these changes into 2.7 as well? There > will be bugfix updates for 2.7, and David Beazley just tweeted about > how the IDLE experience with Python 2.7 got much worse compared to > 2.6. In his tweet he is referring to Python 2.7 on OS X. Perhaps he's running into the problem documented in http://bugs.python.org/issue9227 which is that the IDLE in the new-style 64-bit/32-bit python.org installer variant ("10.5+") is broken on 10.6. The workaround is to use the other ("10.3+", 32-bit only) OS X installer for 2.7. The changes here aren't fixing bugs on OS X and I'm not aware of any other IDLE OS X regressions between 2.6 and 2.7. If there are, I hope someone opens issues for them. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 10/14/2010 10:57 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> Is there any chance of getting these changes into 2.7 as well? There >> will be bugfix updates for 2.7, and David Beazley just tweeted about >> how the IDLE experience with Python 2.7 got much worse compared to >> 2.6. > > If there are new features in the patch, it would violate the 'no new > features in bugfixes' policy. On the other hand, since IDLE is used > interactively rather than in programs, I do not think the reason for the > policy applies as strongly as to everything else in the stdlib. > > Bruce, if you post a 2.7 patch with new features, please quote Guido's > request so that tracker gardeners will know that it has BDFL approval in > that regard. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > _______________________________________________ > 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
