[Idle-dev] IDLE going forward

[Robert]

On 2011-02-02 17:18:41 -0500, Corey Richardson said:

> On 2/2/2011 4:58 PM, Robert wrote:
>> It was suggested in another Python newsgroup that IDLE has flaws. Yes,
>> I know, hard to believe that software has flaws, however, out of that
>> was born a desire to clean up the code cruft etc. in IDLE.
>> 
>> Two things that came out generally were:
>> 
>> * Update the UI (use ttk widgets etc.)
>> * More tests and automate testing
>> * Clean up the code
>> 
>> What else would you like to see? I was said that Python (and IDLE) are
>> going to Mercurial at some point, so maybe that would be a good time
>> to start the effort.
>> 
>> It will be a bit for me. I have some learning to do before I try and
>> tackle this. I think it would be a good way for me to continue to
>> learn about Python, unit testing, UI design and code refactoring.
> 
> Quite a bit of learning for me as well! Mostly it's just that I've never
> done much with ttk or testing, but I'm glad to learn.
> 
>> 
>> So chime in with your suggestions!
> I think that is quite the list already. After we (whoever we may be) get
> that list done, we can think of other things.
>> 
>> Thought: Should this just be an effort for IDLE in P3 going forward so
>> that focus can be had?
> Considering that all non-bugfix changes aren't being accepted for Python
> 2, this would be strictly Python 3.

I was thinking that as well. The Python class that I am taking is all 
P3 and has Tkinter stuff in it.  :-)

-- 
Robert