[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 434, Idle Enhancement Exception (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 03:40:14 CET 2013

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I am accepting Todd Rovito's and Terry Reedy's PEP 434, officially declaring IDLE to be an application bundled with Python, with the contents of "Lib/idlelib" exempt from the usual "no new features in maintenance releases" rule.

As stated in the PEP, this isn't carte blanche to do major rewrites in maintenance releases, merely acknowledgement that, when in doubt, we better serve our users by treating IDLE as a bundled application and making it behave consistently across all supported versions than we do by treating it as a library first and an application second. Hopefully this clarification, and the stated goal of supporting IDLE as a high quality cross-platform default starting point for new Python users that aren't already accustomed to the command line and editing text files directly, will make it easier for the IDLE developers to focus on making IDLE excel at that task. Regards, Nick.

Does that mean that mainstream idle development should move out of the python tree?

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