I agree. It would be nice to get into hacking on Idle, but I've never really found my way into it.
A couple of things. Is there a source-code repository on Github (or some Mercurial equivalent) where everyone can see the work-in-progress? Is IDLE still part of the Python standard package? I use Ubuntu and I always find I have to install Idle separately from Python. I don't know if this is a Ubuntu perversity or whether Idle is now a stand-alone thing. Given that people always seem to have problems getting patches into the standard distribution maybe stand-alone would be better. But who would make this decision? I don't have a problem with a mailing list. But I agree, a URL to an idle-dev central (place for developers hang out with links to this mailing list, the repository, IRC etc.) would be great. phil On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:07 AM, phelix <nab...@traction.de> wrote: > > Over the last couple of months I have collected a couple of small but imho > important modifications / bugs to make working with IDLE smoother. But I > would prefer very much to discuss these in a more active environment. > > Taking part in IDLE-development seems very hard, though it really does not > have to be. On the code-side everything is fine but marketing-wise things > are not so good. Just take this mailing list. I am in my thirties and to me > it looks like from the stone age. Who wants his eMail-account spammed with a > mailing list? I would prefer a regular forum and I think a lot of people > would, especially the younger ones. > > Also this list is hard to find. It is not mentioned anywhere on the > idle-homepage and not very obvious in the program. > > Compare the spyder homepage and the idle-homepage: > http://packages.python.org/spyder/ http://packages.python.org/spyder/ > http://docs.python.org/library/idle.html > http://docs.python.org/library/idle.html > I am not talking about fancy graphics but only missing information. > > Why not display something in the splash-screen like: idle development is > easy, contribute at ... > > I really like working with IDLE and it being coded in Python and easy to > modify and all but seing how slow it is improving makes me sad. Especially > the small things count for a smooth workflow. > > Very many people start out with IDLE and it is a missed chance to give them > an unsmooth IDE. > > best, > > =Phelix= > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Suggestions-idle-dev-tp31383544p31383544.html > Sent from the Python - idle-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
