Community (A Modest Proposal)

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/13/2010 12:14 PM, rantingrick wrote:

> I have documented time and again the poor state of IDLE. The only
> responses i ever get are...
>
>   "Nobody uses IDLE"
>   "Only a dumbass would use IDLE"
>   "I have never used IDLE but i *know* nothing is wrong with it"

Perhaps you are listening selectively. I have said more than once on 
this list that I use IDLE, I like using it, it works for me, AND I would 
like it improved. When a student proposed that as part of a Google 
Summer of Code project, I (and others) encouraged him to go ahead, which 
he did. Any concrete effort you make to improve IDLE would be 
appreciated by me. There are issues on the tracker already.

Terry Jan Reedy