anatoly techtonik wrote:
why not to replace it with something that you can actually use, with something that is at least extensible? So people will be interested to learn and contribute.
IDLE is written in Python, so it's about as extensible as you can get. Seems to me the only kind of IDE that it makes sense to ship with Python is one that is written in Python and maintained by the core developers. Anything else is best left as a third party package for download by those who want to use it. Tkinter is arguably not a very good basis for it from a technical point of view, but so far all the alternatives are too bloated and/or nonportable to consider bundling with the standard distribution. So the only realistic alternatives at the moment seem to be either IDLE+Tkinter or nothing. Quite likely most experienced developers use something else, and wouldn't care if IDLE were removed and not replaced with anything. But there are benefits to having a standard, lightweight IDE present in most Python installations. Books and tutorials can be designed around it, for example, with fairly high assurance that it will be available to beginners who aren't comfortable finding their way around text editors and command shells. So, I'd say that, like democracy, it's not very good, but it's better than any of the alternatives. :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
