I am accepting Todd Rovito's and Terry Reedy's PEP 434, officially declaring IDLE to be an application bundled with Python, with the contents of "Lib/idlelib" exempt from the usual "no new features in maintenance releases" rule.
As stated in the PEP, this isn't carte blanche to do major rewrites in maintenance releases, merely acknowledgement that, when in doubt, we better serve our users by treating IDLE as a bundled application and making it behave consistently across all supported versions than we do by treating it as a library first and an application second. Hopefully this clarification, and the stated goal of supporting IDLE as a high quality cross-platform default starting point for new Python users that aren't already accustomed to the command line and editing text files directly, will make it easier for the IDLE developers to focus on making IDLE excel at that task. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
