On 7/17/2010 7:33 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:05:22 +0300 > Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > I haven't seen any conclusive statement or action to this thread. > Without being an IDLE user myself (for good reason), I think that if > IDLE should stay, active contributors such as Tal should be given commit > access and enough free rein to maintain and improve it. > > Otherwise there's no reason to continue claiming that IDLE is important > while discouraging such people's contributions. The current situation, > where several core developers support IDLE's continued inclusion but > none actually cares for the issues and patches in the tracker, is > schizophrenic. > > Regards > > Antoine. +1
There's no reason why Tal should be obstructed in his goal of making IDLE at least acceptable again. It's fairly obvious thaat there aren't any committers who have both the inclination /and/ the time to do this, so adding Tal (and other interested parties) as a developer makes a lot of sense. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
