[Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library; Scherer Agreement

[Pat Campbell]

Hi Bruce:

Please click on the link below to find the contributor agreement form along
with
instructions on how to send it.

http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Pat Campbell
PSF Secretary & Administrator

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12 2010, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
> > I don't recall that VIDLE has anything to do with running multiple IDLE
> > copies.
>
> Well, I stole the ephemeral port idea from him!
>
> > What's in VIDLE is a lot of bug fixes and some improvements. For
> > example, you can configure it to not require having to save a file,
> > which makes it as easy to use for quick testing as the shell. Another
> > improvement, of high importance for our physics students and other
> > novice programmers, is to bring an error display forward. Many
> > students fill the screen with the edit window and the error message
> > could be hidden, leaving them puzzled as to why their program wasn't
> > running. Stuff like that, all aimed at issues we had seen with a large
> > population of science and engineering students.
> >
> > I'll say again that IDLE/VIDLE is an excellent environment for novices.
> > Issues identified here about look and feel etc. have just not been of any
> > importance in that context.
> >
>
> I'd like to get all that incorporated so you can go back to dealing
> directly with us.  Your students are the people we want to reach!
>
> > If you'll send me what you want from Scherer, I can contact him.
>
> I'm copying our PSF Secretary/Administrator, Pat Campbell.  She can work
> with you to get David Scherer's Contributor Agreement.  We really
> appreciate your assistance with this, he's one of the last missing
> agreements.
>
> --
> KBK
>



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Pat Campbell
PSF Administrator/Secretary
patcam at python.org
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