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Project News

10th September 2002

Kurt B. Kaiser takes over as new IDLEfork project coordinator. IDLEfork website 'Current Tasks' page updated.

6th June 2002

The IDLEfork project welcomes some new and returning developers aboard! IDLEfork website 'Current Tasks' page updated.

24th July 2001

New IDLEfork project web pages now online.

21st July 2001

Release 0.8.1 of IDLEfork made. This is an alpha release to mark the finish of the merge of the stable IDLE (now post 0.8) cvs changes, and the beginning of a new phase of development. See the SourceForge release notes for further details.

23rd June 2001

As a result of a lively discussion on idle-dev about the future of IDLE, the IDLEfork project is 'reborn', at the behest of GvR, under a new coordinator, Stephen M. Gava. First cab off the rank in an ambitious list of potential improvements is to bring IDLEfork up to date with the changes made in stable IDLE cvs over the last year.

15th August 2000

Release 0.7.1 of IDLEfork made. This release was based on a merging of stable IDLE version 0.5 and the VPython idle fork, with additional coding by David Scherer, Peter Schneider-Kamp, and Nicholas Riley.

10th August 2000

IDLE fork project is initially set up by Peter Schneider-Kamp, at GvR's suggestion, to encourage further development of IDLE without disturbing stable IDLE.