[Idle-dev] CVS: idle CREDITS.txt,1.2,1.3 HISTORY.txt,1.1,1.2 NEWS.txt,1.6,1.7 README.txt,1.5,1.6
Kurt B. Kaiser
kbk@users.sourceforge.net
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:27:29 -0800
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*** 12,23 ****
Besides Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork version
! 0.8.1 and later are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, and
! Kurt B. Kaiser, who continued the integration of the RPC and remote debugger,
! and made a number of usability enhancements.
! Other contributors include Tony Lownds (Mac integration), and Chui Tey (RPC,
! Debugger)
! Neal Norwitz and Josh Robb have submitted useful patches.
There are others who should be included here, especially those who contributed
--- 12,24 ----
Besides Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork version
! 0.8.1 and later are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the Configuration GUI and
! the new About menu, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed the integration of the
! RPC and remote debugger, and made a number of usability enhancements.
! Other contributors include Tony Lownds (Mac integration), Neal Norwitz (code
! check and clean-up), and Chui Tey (RPC integration, debugger integration and
! persistent breakpoints).
! Josh Robb has submitted useful patches.
There are others who should be included here, especially those who contributed
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*** 29,30 ****
--- 30,33 ----
Contact details at http://idlefork.sourceforge.net
+
+
Index: HISTORY.txt
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*** 6,87 ****
! IDLE fork 0.7.1 - 29 May 2000
! -----------------------------
!
! David Scherer <dscherer@cmu.edu>
!
! This is a modification of the CVS version of IDLE 0.5, updated as of
! 2000-03-09. It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks,
! you get to keep both pieces.
!
! If you have problems or suggestions, you should either contact me or
! post to the list at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
! (making it clear that you are using this modified version of IDLE).
!
! Changes:
!
! The ExecBinding module, a replacement for ScriptBinding, executes
! programs in a separate process, piping standard I/O through an RPC
! mechanism to an OnDemandOutputWindow in IDLE. It supports executing
! unnamed programs (through a temporary file). It does not yet support
! debugging.
!
! When running programs with ExecBinding, tracebacks will be clipped
! to exclude system modules. If, however, a system module calls back
! into the user program, that part of the traceback will be shown.
!
! The OnDemandOutputWindow class has been improved. In particular,
! it now supports a readline() function used to implement user input,
! and a scroll_clear() operation which is used to hide the output of
! a previous run by scrolling it out of the window.
!
! Startup behavior has been changed. By default IDLE starts up with
! just a blank editor window, rather than an interactive window. Opening
! a file in such a blank window replaces the (nonexistent) contents of
! that window instead of creating another window. Because of the need to
! have a well-known port for the ExecBinding protocol, only one copy of
! IDLE can be running. Additional invocations use the RPC mechanism to
! report their command line arguments to the copy already running.
!
! The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the excessively large
! 'edit' menu has been split up into 'edit', 'format', and 'run'.
!
! 'Python Documentation' now works on Windows, if the win32api module is
! present.
!
! A few key bindings have been changed: F1 now loads Python Documentation
! instead of the IDLE help; shift-TAB is now a synonym for unindent.
!
! New modules:
! ExecBinding.py Executes program through loader
! loader.py Bootstraps user program
! protocol.py RPC protocol
! Remote.py User-process interpreter
! spawn.py OS-specific code to start programs
!
! Files modified:
! autoindent.py ( bindings tweaked )
! bindings.py ( menus reorganized )
! config.txt ( execbinding enabled )
! editorwindow.py ( new menus, fixed 'Python Documentation' )
! filelist.py ( hook for "open in same window" )
! formatparagraph.py ( bindings tweaked )
! idle.bat ( removed absolute pathname )
! idle.pyw ( weird bug due to import with same name? )
! iobinding.py ( open in same window, EOL convention )
! keydefs.py ( bindings tweaked )
! outputwindow.py ( readline, scroll_clear, etc )
! pyshell.py ( changed startup behavior )
! readme.txt ( <Recursion on file with id=1234567> )
!
!
! IDLE 0.5 - February 2000
! ------------------------
This is an early release of IDLE, my own attempt at a Tkinter-based
IDE for Python.
! For news about this release, see the file NEWS.txt. (For a more
! detailed change log, see the file ChangeLog.)
FEATURES
--- 6,16 ----
! IDLE 0.5 - February 2000 - Release Notes
! ----------------------------------------
This is an early release of IDLE, my own attempt at a Tkinter-based
IDE for Python.
! (For a more detailed change log, see the file ChangeLog.)
FEATURES
***************
*** 121,122 ****
--- 50,180 ----
IDLE is covered by the standard Python copyright notice
(http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html).
+
+
+ New in IDLE 0.5 (2/15/2000)
+ ---------------------------
+
+ Tons of stuff, much of it contributed by Tim Peters and Mark Hammond:
+
+ - Status bar, displaying current line/column (Moshe Zadka).
+
+ - Better stack viewer, using tree widget. (XXX Only used by Stack
+ Viewer menu, not by the debugger.)
+
+ - Format paragraph now recognizes Python block comments and reformats
+ them correctly (MH)
+
+ - New version of pyclbr.py parses top-level functions and understands
+ much more of Python's syntax; this is reflected in the class and path
+ browsers (TP)
+
+ - Much better auto-indent; knows how to indent the insides of
+ multi-line statements (TP)
+
+ - Call tip window pops up when you type the name of a known function
+ followed by an open parenthesis. Hit ESC or click elsewhere in the
+ window to close the tip window (MH)
+
+ - Comment out region now inserts ## to make it stand out more (TP)
+
+ - New path and class browsers based on a tree widget that looks
+ familiar to Windows users
+
+ - Reworked script running commands to be more intuitive: I/O now
+ always goes to the *Python Shell* window, and raw_input() works
+ correctly. You use F5 to import/reload a module: this adds the module
+ name to the __main__ namespace. You use Control-F5 to run a script:
+ this runs the script *in* the __main__ namespace. The latter also
+ sets sys.argv[] to the script name
+
+
+ New in IDLE 0.4 (4/7/99)
+ ------------------------
+
+ Most important change: a new menu entry "File -> Path browser", shows
+ a 4-column hierarchical browser which lets you browse sys.path,
+ directories, modules, and classes. Yes, it's a superset of the Class
+ browser menu entry. There's also a new internal module,
+ MultiScrolledLists.py, which provides the framework for this dialog.
+
+
+ New in IDLE 0.3 (2/17/99)
+ -------------------------
+
+ Most important changes:
+
+ - Enabled support for running a module, with or without the debugger.
+ Output goes to a new window. Pressing F5 in a module is effectively a
+ reload of that module; Control-F5 loads it under the debugger.
+
+ - Re-enable tearing off the Windows menu, and make a torn-off Windows
+ menu update itself whenever a window is opened or closed.
+
+ - Menu items can now be have a checkbox (when the menu label starts
+ with "!"); use this for the Debugger and "Auto-open stack viewer"
+ (was: JIT stack viewer) menu items.
+
+ - Added a Quit button to the Debugger API.
+
+ - The current directory is explicitly inserted into sys.path.
+
+ - Fix the debugger (when using Python 1.5.2b2) to use canonical
+ filenames for breakpoints, so these actually work. (There's still a
+ lot of work to be done to the management of breakpoints in the
+ debugger though.)
+
+ - Closing a window that is still colorizing now actually works.
+
+ - Allow dragging of the separator between the two list boxes in the
+ class browser.
+
+ - Bind ESC to "close window" of the debugger, stack viewer and class
+ browser. It removes the selection highlighting in regular text
+ windows. (These are standard Windows conventions.)
+
+
+ New in IDLE 0.2 (1/8/99)
+ ------------------------
+
+ Lots of changes; here are the highlights:
+
+ General:
+
+ - You can now write and configure your own IDLE extension modules; see
+ extend.txt.
+
+
+ File menu:
+
+ The command to open the Python shell window is now in the File menu.
+
+
+ Edit menu:
+
+ New Find dialog with more options; replace dialog; find in files dialog.
+
+ Commands to tabify or untabify a region.
+
+ Command to format a paragraph.
+
+
+ Debug menu:
+
+ JIT (Just-In-Time) stack viewer toggle -- if set, the stack viewer
+ automaticall pops up when you get a traceback.
+
+ Windows menu:
+
+ Zoom height -- make the window full height.
+
+
+ Help menu:
+
+ The help text now show up in a regular window so you can search and
+ even edit it if you like.
+
+
+
+ IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98.
+
+ ======================================================================
Index: NEWS.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/idlefork/idle/NEWS.txt,v
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*** 1,180 ****
IDLEfork NEWS
! =============
! (For a more detailed change log, see the file ChangeLog.)
! ---------------------------------------------------------
! IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 0 (31 DEC 2002)
! ----------------------------------
! First Alpha release with GvR RPC and Configuration GUI.
! This file will be updated at next Alpha release. Meanwhile, see README.txt.
! IDLEfork 0.8.1 (22 JUL 2001)
! ----------------------------
! New tarball released as a result of the 'revitalisation' of the IDLEfork
! project.
! This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatability with earlier
! versions of python (especially ancient ones like 1.5x) is no longer
! a priority in IDLEfork development.
! This release is based on a merging of the earlier IDLE fork work with
! current cvs IDLE (post IDLE version 0.8), with some minor additional
! coding by Kurt B. Kaiser and Stephen M. Gava.
! This release is basically functional but also contains some known
! breakages, particularly with running things from the shell window. Also
! the debugger is not working, but I believe this was the case with the
! previous IDLE fork release (0.7.1) as well.
! This release is being made now to mark the point at which IDLEfork is
! launching into a new stage of development.
! IDLEfork CVS will now be branched to enable further development and
! exploration of the two "execution in a remote process" patches submitted
! by David Scherer (David's is currently in IDLEfork) and GvR, while
! stabilisation and development of less heavyweight improvements (like
! user customisation) can continue on the trunk.
! IDLE fork 0.7.1 (15 AUG 2000)
! -----------------------------
! First project tarball released.
!
! This was the first release of IDLE fork, which at this stage was a
! combination of IDLE 0.5 and the VPython idle fork, with additional
! changes coded by David Scherer, Peter Schneider-Kamp and
! Nicholas Riley.
!
!
! original IDLE NEWS.txt :
! ========================
! New in IDLE 0.5 (2/15/2000)
! -------------------------
! Tons of stuff, much of it contributed by Tim Peters and Mark Hammond:
! - Status bar, displaying current line/column (Moshe Zadka).
! - Better stack viewer, using tree widget. (XXX Only used by Stack
! Viewer menu, not by the debugger.)
! - Format paragraph now recognizes Python block comments and reformats
! them correctly (MH)
! - New version of pyclbr.py parses top-level functions and understands
! much more of Python's syntax; this is reflected in the class and path
! browsers (TP)
! - Much better auto-indent; knows how to indent the insides of
! multi-line statements (TP)
! - Call tip window pops up when you type the name of a known function
! followed by an open parenthesis. Hit ESC or click elsewhere in the
! window to close the tip window (MH)
! - Comment out region now inserts ## to make it stand out more (TP)
! - New path and class browsers based on a tree widget that looks
! familiar to Windows users
! - Reworked script running commands to be more intuitive: I/O now
! always goes to the *Python Shell* window, and raw_input() works
! correctly. You use F5 to import/reload a module: this adds the module
! name to the __main__ namespace. You use Control-F5 to run a script:
! this runs the script *in* the __main__ namespace. The latter also
! sets sys.argv[] to the script name
- New in IDLE 0.4 (4/7/99)
- ------------------------
! Most important change: a new menu entry "File -> Path browser", shows
! a 4-column hierarchical browser which lets you browse sys.path,
! directories, modules, and classes. Yes, it's a superset of the Class
! browser menu entry. There's also a new internal module,
! MultiScrolledLists.py, which provides the framework for this dialog.
! New in IDLE 0.3 (2/17/99)
! -------------------------
! Most important changes:
! - Enabled support for running a module, with or without the debugger.
! Output goes to a new window. Pressing F5 in a module is effectively a
! reload of that module; Control-F5 loads it under the debugger.
! - Re-enable tearing off the Windows menu, and make a torn-off Windows
! menu update itself whenever a window is opened or closed.
! - Menu items can now be have a checkbox (when the menu label starts
! with "!"); use this for the Debugger and "Auto-open stack viewer"
! (was: JIT stack viewer) menu items.
! - Added a Quit button to the Debugger API.
! - The current directory is explicitly inserted into sys.path.
! - Fix the debugger (when using Python 1.5.2b2) to use canonical
! filenames for breakpoints, so these actually work. (There's still a
! lot of work to be done to the management of breakpoints in the
! debugger though.)
- - Closing a window that is still colorizing now actually works.
- - Allow dragging of the separator between the two list boxes in the
- class browser.
! - Bind ESC to "close window" of the debugger, stack viewer and class
! browser. It removes the selection highlighting in regular text
! windows. (These are standard Windows conventions.)
! ----------------------------------------------------------------------
! New in IDLE 0.2 (1/8/99)
! ------------------------
! Lots of changes; here are the highlights:
! General:
! - You can now write and configure your own IDLE extension modules; see
! extend.txt.
! File menu:
- The command to open the Python shell window is now in the File menu.
! Edit menu:
! New Find dialog with more options; replace dialog; find in files dialog.
! Commands to tabify or untabify a region.
- Command to format a paragraph.
! Debug menu:
!
! JIT (Just-In-Time) stack viewer toggle -- if set, the stack viewer
! automaticall pops up when you get a traceback.
!
! Windows menu:
! Zoom height -- make the window full height.
- Help menu:
- The help text now show up in a regular window so you can search and
- even edit it if you like.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98.
- ======================================================================
--- 1,222 ----
+ +++++++++++++
IDLEfork NEWS
! +++++++++++++
! What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2?
! ===================================
! *Release date: XX-XXX-2003*
! - Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string.
+ - Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly
+ deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file.
! - Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return>
! - Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached
! to parents.
! - Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the
! Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as
! the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the
! Settings/General/Additional Help facility.
! - If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of
! accessing python.org.
! - Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make
! them work in the installed configuration, also.
! - On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One
! less mouse action!
+ - Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing
+ window location persistence.
! - Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember!
! - Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>.
! - Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent.
! - Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window;
! add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart". Update help.
! - Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a
! shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" and hotkey to jump to the most recent
! restart boundary.
! - Change the shell window menu "Debug" to "Shell"; change "Settings" to
! "Options".
! - Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package.
! - Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration.
! - In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython.
! Properly credit David Scherer.
! - Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling.
! - Known issues:
! + Can't kill a tight loop in the Windows version: Insert a
! ``print "*",`` in an outer loop or use the Task Manager to kill.
! + Printing under Linux may be problematic.
! + The debugger is pretty slow.
! + RPC stack levels are not being pruned from debugger tracebacks.
! What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1?
! ===================================
! *Release date: 31-Dec-2002*
! - First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to
! Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS.
! - Adapted to the Mac platform.
! - Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message,
! which provides details of command line usage.
! - Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
! - Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output
! of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the
! environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell
! environment was separate from the environment of the user code.)
! - Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
! - Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido
! van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell
! to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed:
! ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py
! What's New in IDLEfork 0.8.1?
! =============================
! *Release date: 22-Jul-2001*
! - New tarball released as a result of the 'revitalisation' of the IDLEfork
! project.
! - This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatability with earlier
! versions of python (especially ancient ones like 1.5x) is no longer a
! priority in IDLEfork development.
! - This release is based on a merging of the earlier IDLE fork work with current
! cvs IDLE (post IDLE version 0.8), with some minor additional coding by Kurt
! B. Kaiser and Stephen M. Gava.
! - This release is basically functional but also contains some known breakages,
! particularly with running things from the shell window. Also the debugger is
! not working, but I believe this was the case with the previous IDLE fork
! release (0.7.1) as well.
+ - This release is being made now to mark the point at which IDLEfork is
+ launching into a new stage of development.
! - IDLEfork CVS will now be branched to enable further development and
! exploration of the two "execution in a remote process" patches submitted by
! David Scherer (David's is currently in IDLEfork) and GvR, while stabilisation
! and development of less heavyweight improvements (like user customisation)
! can continue on the trunk.
+ What's New in IDLE fork 0.7.1?
+ ==============================
! *Release date: 15-Aug-2000*
! - First project tarball released.
! - This was the first release of IDLE fork, which at this stage was a
! combination of IDLE 0.5 and the VPython idle fork, with additional changes
! coded by David Scherer, Peter Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley.
! IDLE fork 0.7.1 - 29 May 2000
! -----------------------------
! David Scherer <dscherer@cmu.edu>
+ - This is a modification of the CVS version of IDLE 0.5, updated as of
+ 2000-03-09. It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you
+ get to keep both pieces.
+
+ - If you have problems or suggestions, you should either contact me or post to
+ the list at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev (making it clear
+ that you are using this modified version of IDLE).
+
+ - Changes:
+
+ - The ExecBinding module, a replacement for ScriptBinding, executes programs
+ in a separate process, piping standard I/O through an RPC mechanism to an
+ OnDemandOutputWindow in IDLE. It supports executing unnamed programs
+ (through a temporary file). It does not yet support debugging.
+
+ - When running programs with ExecBinding, tracebacks will be clipped to
+ exclude system modules. If, however, a system module calls back into the
+ user program, that part of the traceback will be shown.
+
+ - The OnDemandOutputWindow class has been improved. In particular, it now
+ supports a readline() function used to implement user input, and a
+ scroll_clear() operation which is used to hide the output of a previous run
+ by scrolling it out of the window.
+
+ - Startup behavior has been changed. By default IDLE starts up with just a
+ blank editor window, rather than an interactive window. Opening a file in
+ such a blank window replaces the (nonexistent) contents of that window
+ instead of creating another window. Because of the need to have a
+ well-known port for the ExecBinding protocol, only one copy of IDLE can be
+ running. Additional invocations use the RPC mechanism to report their
+ command line arguments to the copy already running.
+
+ - The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the excessively large
+ 'edit' menu has been split up into 'edit', 'format', and 'run'.
+
+ - 'Python Documentation' now works on Windows, if the win32api module is
+ present.
+
+ - A few key bindings have been changed: F1 now loads Python Documentation
+ instead of the IDLE help; shift-TAB is now a synonym for unindent.
+
+ - New modules:
+
+ ExecBinding.py Executes program through loader
+ loader.py Bootstraps user program
+ protocol.py RPC protocol
+ Remote.py User-process interpreter
+ spawn.py OS-specific code to start programs
+
+ - Files modified:
+
+ autoindent.py ( bindings tweaked )
+ bindings.py ( menus reorganized )
+ config.txt ( execbinding enabled )
+ editorwindow.py ( new menus, fixed 'Python Documentation' )
+ filelist.py ( hook for "open in same window" )
+ formatparagraph.py ( bindings tweaked )
+ idle.bat ( removed absolute pathname )
+ idle.pyw ( weird bug due to import with same name? )
+ iobinding.py ( open in same window, EOL convention )
+ keydefs.py ( bindings tweaked )
+ outputwindow.py ( readline, scroll_clear, etc )
+ pyshell.py ( changed startup behavior )
+ readme.txt ( <Recursion on file with id=1234567> )
+
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases.
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------
Index: README.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/idlefork/idle/README.txt,v
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*** README.txt 31 Dec 2002 17:56:18 -0000 1.5
--- README.txt 10 Jan 2003 21:27:23 -0000 1.6
***************
*** 2,56 ****
===============
! IDLEfork is an official experimental fork of Python's Integrated
! DeveLopment Environment IDLE. The biggest change is to execute
! Python code in a separate process, which is /restarted/ for each
! Run (F5) initiated from an editor window. This enhancement of
! IDLE has often been requested, and is now finally available,
! complete with debugger.
!
! There is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy
! to select fonts, colors, and startup options.
!
! IDLEfork will be merged back into the Python distribution in the
! near future (probably 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE.
!
! As David Scherer aptly put it in the original IDLEfork README,
! "It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to
! keep both pieces."
! If you find bugs let us know about them by using the IDLEfork Bug
! Tracker. See the IDLEfork home page at
!
! http://idlefork.sourceforge.net
!
! for details. Patches are always appreciated at the IDLEfork Patch
! Tracker.
!
! Please see the files NEWS.txt and ChangeLog for more up to date
! information on changes in this release of IDLEfork.
!
! Thanks for trying IDLEfork.
! IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 0
! --------------------------------
! Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The
! output of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to
! inspect the environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1
! the shell environment was separate from the environment of the user
! code.)
! Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
! Adapted to the Mac platform.
! Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
! Known issues:
! - Can't kill a tight loop in the Windows version: Use the Task Manager!
! - Printing under Linux may be problematic.
! - The debugger is pretty slow.
! - RPC stack levels are not being pruned from debugger tracebacks.
! - Changelog and NEWS.txt are incomplete.
--- 2,38 ----
===============
! IDLEfork is an official experimental fork of Python's Integrated DeveLopment
! Environment, IDLE. The biggest change is to execute Python code in a separate
! process, which is /restarted/ for each Run (F5) initiated from an editor
! window. This enhancement of IDLE has often been requested, and is now finally
! available, complete with the IDLE debugger. The magic "reload/import *"
! incantations are no longer required when editing/testing a module two or three
! steps down the import chain.
!
! There is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy to select
! fonts, colors, keybindings, and startup options. There is new feature where
! the user can specify additional help sources, either locally or on the web.
!
! IDLEfork will be merged back into the Python distribution in the near future
! (probably 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE.
! For information on this release, refer to NEWS.txt
+ As David Scherer aptly put it in the original IDLEfork README, "It is alpha
+ software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces."
! If you find bugs let us know about them by using the IDLEfork Bug Tracker. See
! the IDLEfork home page at
! http://idlefork.sourceforge.net
! for details. Patches are always appreciated at the IDLEfork Patch Tracker, and
! Change Requests should be posted to the RFE Tracker at
! https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=9579&atid=359579
! There is a mail list for IDLE: idle-dev@python.org. You can join at
! http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
! Thanks for trying IDLEfork.