[Idle-dev] Anticipated changes for Mac OS X

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > p.s. when is the big merge-with-python happening?
> > 
> > I'm ready once IDLEFORK has done an alpha release.
> 
> I think I need to work through the bugs that you have submitted and
> then I will do the Alpha release.  I'm making good progress on the
> SyntaxError issues.  The throughput issue may have to wait until after
> Alpha, it's more important to get more eyes.  Other critical/major
> issues may turn up in Alpha requiring a second Alpha round before
> Beta.
> 
> I've stopped introducing new features.  Chui Tey's breakpoint persistence
> check-in has brought the debugger to a reasonable state of usefulness.

Great!

> I believe we can wait for Tony's check-in before releasing the Alpha.
> 
> If there are no critical feature requests in first Alpha I'd suggest
> freezing and going to bug fix, second Alpha, then Beta.
> 
> Guido, do you still want to do the Beta?

Actually, yes, I want you to do the beta.  I was hoping that IDLEFORK
alpha could be merged into Python 2.3a1, but that would mean you'd
have to be ready for your alpha about three weeks from now.  It's okay
to wait until Python 2.3a2 too.  Or do you think otherwise?

(My own main constraint is that I have no time to do any significant
Python work in the near future, and even significant thinking takes
away from other deadlines. :-( )

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)