Got it. Let me read up on idle hacking and familiarize myself with the bug tracker and I'll get back with you.
What's idleX? Funny, I was thinking down the line of making my own fork of idle and calling it idleXL . Haha. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Roger Serwy <roger.se...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am glad that you are willing to help with fixing IDLE. Tkinter experience > is not a strong prerequisite; you can contribute simply by testing patches > already provided and giving your feedback. With more reviewers we can > iron-out any unanticipated side-effects. > > I can offer what I know about IDLE's internals if you or anyone else needs > it (while it is still fresh in my memory) . > > Al Sweigart's article discusses several important shortcomings of IDLE. Nick > Coghlan created a meta-issue for it: #13504. Some of those issues are > actually fixed in IdleX. > > > > On 12/12/2011 01:30 PM, Sean Wolfe wrote: >> >> Nice to see this mail! I'm a big fan of IDLE though and it's nice to >> see. I'm not really a IDLE developer yet but I'm boning up on tkinter >> to try and help out in the future... maybe in time to help out with >> this. >> >> Did you guys catch this article? I think so cause there are a lot of >> comments. Anyhow, I dig a lot of the suggestions. >> >> http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-things-i-hate-about-idle-that-i-wish-someone-would-fix/ >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Roger Serwy<roger.se...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> IDLE Developers, >>> >>> By my count there are over 110 valid open issues against IDLE, some minor >>> and others major. Let's try to make that number smaller. >>> >>> Here is a partial list of issues that have working patches: >>> >>> 3573 IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) >>> instead of file(s)) >>> 5219 IDLE/Tkinter: edit win stops updating when tooltip is active >>> 6698 IDLE no longer opens only an edit window when configured to do so >>> 6699 IDLE: Warn user about overwriting a file that has a newer version >>> on >>> filesystem >>> 7136 Idle File Menu Option Improvement >>> 7676 IDLE shell shouldn't use TABs >>> 8515 idle "Run Module" (F5) does not set __file__ variable >>> 8900 IDLE crashes if Preference set to At Startup -> Open Edit Window >>> 13039 IDLE editor: shell-like behaviour on line starting with ">>>" >>> 13179 IDLE uses common tkinter variables across all editor windows >>> 13495 IDLE: Regression - Two ColorDelegator instances loaded >>> 13506 IDLE sys.path does not contain Current Working Directory >>> >>> Can these patches be applied? I understand that there will be need for >>> some >>> discussion, but we should try to avoid the bike shed problem. >>> >>> Not surprisingly, there are a lot of "duplicate" bug reports. Some issues >>> deal with invalid key bindings and should have a common solution: 4765, >>> 5707, 6739, 11437, 12387, 13071. (IdleX already has a work-around for >>> these >>> issues.) Other issues deal with permission error handling of >>> configHandler.py: 4625, 8231, 9404, 9925. >>> >>> One major patch which requires some updating and much consideration is: >>> 10079 idlelib for Python 3 with Guilherme Polo GSoC enhancements >>> There are a lot of good improvements in there. >>> >>> I am willing to help with fixing the remaining bugs if the IDLE >>> developers >>> are willing to help as well. >>> >>> - Roger >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IDLE-dev mailing list >>> IDLE-dev@python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev >> >> >> > -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
