On 10/21/05, Tony Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is over a month late, sorry, but here it is (Steve did his > threads ages ago; I've fallen really behind).
Better late than never! These summaries are awesome. Just one nit: > ---------------------------------- > Responsiveness of IDLE development > ---------------------------------- > > Noam Raphael posted a request for help getting a large patch to IDLE > committed to CVS. He was concerned that there hasn't been any IDLE > development recently, and that patches are not being considered. He > indicated that his group was considering offering a fork of IDLE with > the improvements, but that they would much prefer integrating the > improvements into the core distribution. > > It was pointed out that a fork might be the best solution, for > various reasons (e.g. the improvements may not be of general > interest, the release time would be much quicker), and that this was > how the current version of IDLE was developed. The dicussion died > out, so it seems likely that a fork will be the resulting solution. Later, it turned out that Kurt Kaiser had missed this message on python-dev (which he only reads occasionally); he redirected the thread to idle-dev where it seems that his issues with the contribution are being resolved and a fork is averted. Whew! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
