On 11 Jul, 2010, at 1:05, Tal Einat wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. > > I have been using IDLE since 2002 and have been doing my best to help > maintain and further develop IDLE since 2005. > > In recent years IDLE has received negligible interest and attention from the > Python community. During this time IDLE has slowly gone downhill. The > documentation and tutorials grow increasingly out of date. Cross-platform > support has degraded with the increasing popularity of OSX and 64-bit > platforms. Bugs take months, and sometimes more than a year, to be solved. > Features that have since become common-place, such as having a non-intrusive > search box instead of a dialog, are obviously and painfully lacking, making > IDLE feel clumsy and out-dated.
Are their patches that fixes these problems? If not, are their at least issues on python's tracker? > > For these reasons, I think it would be fitting to remove IDLE from the > standard library. IDLE is no longer recommended to beginners, IMO rightfully > so, and this was the main reason for its inclusion in the standard library. > Furthermore, if there is little or no interest in developing and maintaining > IDLE, it should be removed to avoid having buggy and badly supported software > in the standard library. I'm -1 on that. Several books, including fairly recent ones, use IDLE as the IDE for running examples. Ronald
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