[meta-sig] Proposal: Access-Sig

[Greg Ward]

On 04 December 2000, JP S-C said:
>      Thanks for replying so quickly.  You are right,
> it is not a language issue in the sense that the
> syntax needs to be changed.  But I thought it might be
> SIG worthy.  Have IDE's been separated from Python and
> Python SIG's?  (I noticed that progenv-sig
> [http://www.python.org/sigs/progenv-sig/] , the
> Programming Environment SIG is retired.)  

Probably your best bet is to contribute to an existing Python IDE.  IDLE
is the obvious choice, since it's open source.  You should probably join
the idle-dev list if you want to hack on IDLE.  See also
idlefork.sourceforge.net for (presumably) more up-to-date code.

Of course, there's also Pythonware and ActivePython.  I believe they're
both commercial and closed-source, so it's unlikely that you'd be able
to hack on the code.

I have no idea what other free Python IDEs there are out there, but I
suspect you (and the whole community) would be better off modifying one
of them rather than starting a new one.

        Greg