-On [20100712 08:26], Stephen Hansen (apt.shan...@gmail.com) wrote: >But I, personally, would consider it a significant loss if IDLE went the way of >the dodo or a third-party module.
Why would it be a significant loss if it went the way of a third party module? Clearly right now it's not being maintained as well as the rest of Python. Maybe that's a clear indicator that it's better maintained externally instead of in the main tree. And for what it is worth, I personally never used it beyond one time looking at it in disgust and neither do I know Pythonistas around me that use it. Bpython and ipython do get installed a lot though, even on Windows. And all these people, no matter their proficiency in programming, use an editor or IDE of some sort, but not IDLE. So I would not mourn to see IDLE get moved out of the main repository as I do not see the added value or benefit, not even for training (and since you're going to set up a training environment anyway, it can only be described as lazy if you are adamant on having it included in the base distribution). Just my EUR 0,02. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Born from the Dark, in the black Cloak of Night... _______________________________________________ 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
