The IDLEfork project has been completed!
NOTE: Python 2.3 users should use IDLE, not IDLEfork!
The IDLEfork project was an official experimental development fork of
Python's
small, light, 'bundled' integrated development environment, IDLE.
The objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution
environment which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC
code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido van Rossum
developed the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce
Sherwood contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.
Besides David and Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork
are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new
configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed
the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded
subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.
Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),
Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), and Chui Tey (RPC integration, debugger
integration and persistent breakpoints).
Scott David Daniels, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, Martin v. Löwis,
Jason Orendorff, Noam Raphael, Josh Robb, Nigel Rowe, and Bruce Sherwood have
submitted useful patches. Thanks, guys!
For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
On June 29, 2003 the IDLEfork code base (rev 0.9b1) was merged back into
Python. Its location in the Python source tree was moved from .../Tools/idle
to .../Lib/idlelib, and the IDLEfork project went into bugfix mode.
Future Plans
IDLEfork was targeted to Python 2.2 (>= 2.2.1). When it was merged into
Python, the subprocess main thread interrupt code became part of Python's
thread module and IDLE once more was coded in pure Python. However, that means
that the version of IDLE in Python 2.3 will not work in Python 2.2.
To support Python 2.2 users, IDLEfork will be maintained in bugfix mode until
the number of downloads shows that the users have moved on to Python 2.3.
It's also possible that beta versions of IDLE (for Python >= 2.3) may
occasionally be posted on the IDLEfork download area.
How To Contribute
Everyone interested in the future development of IDLE is invited to contribute
by means of discussion, bug reports and patches.
- Discussion
Discussion of development for IDLE is carried out on the
idle-dev mailing list
at the
Python Language Website.
Subscription information for idle-dev can be found
here.
The archives of the idle-dev list can be perused here.
- Bug Reports
IDLE uses the Python Bug Tracking facility provided by SourceForge. It
can be found
here.
- Patches
The Python Patch Tracker can be found
here..
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