On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Does that mean that mainstream idle development should move out of the python tree? _______________________________________________ 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
