Terry J. Reedy added the comment: (Because of PEP 434, this could be added to all current versions if and when it is added. Marking for 3.5 is enough for now.)
I am not yet very familiar with either extensions or configuration. > many extensions have parameters, but setting them can only be done by editing > a file If this is true of existing extensions (and I don't even know which features are 'extensions), then this patch would be useful now. Otherwise, it could wait until new extensions are included. As I understand the patch so far, it creates a generic tab from a section of a configuration file. Would 3rd party extensions add such a section? Or do we really need a mechanism for extension files to define a tab for the extension. (This would also enable custom placements of fields.) I personally have no need to disable extensions, but if there were another 10 or 20, I can imagine a class instructor would like a way to easily simplify the interface, or to make a custom extension easier to work with. > the documentation for such parameters is hard to find (when it exists) I recently disabled the useless help button on the configuration dialog. I think what is needed is a tab-specific help text. That would work especially well for extension-specific tabs, but we would need a mechanism to get help text from an extension file. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3068> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
