Hello, More than a year and a half ago, I posted a big patch to IDLE which adds support for completion and much better calltips, along with some other improvements. Since then, I had some mail conversations with Kurt B. Kaiser, who is responsible for IDLE, which resulted in nothing. My last mail, from Jul 10, saying (with more details) "I made the minor changes you asked for, let's get it in, it's not very complicated" was unanswered.
This is just an example of the fact that IDLE development was virtually nonexistent in the last months, because most patches were simply ignored. I and my colleges use IDLE intensively - that is, a heavily patched IDLE. It includes my patch and many other improvements made by me and my friends. The improved IDLE is MUCH better than the standard IDLE, especially for interactive work. Since we would like to share our work with the rest of the world, if nothing is changed we would start a new IDLE fork soon, perhaps at python-hosting.com. I really don't like that - maintaining a fork requires a lot of extra work, and it is certain that many more people will enjoy our work if it integrated in the standard Python distribution. But sending patches and watching them stay open despite a continuous nagging is worse. Please, either convince KBK to invest more time in IDLE development, or find someone else who would take care of it. If you like, I would happily help in the development. I hope I am not sounding offensive. It's actually quite simple: if the excellent development environment IDLE can't develop inside standard Python, it should be developed outside it. As I said, I prefer the first option. Have a good week, Noam Raphael _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
