phil jones | 13 Apr 2011 01:59
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Talking of updates to IDLE

Did the VIDLE changes and fixes ever get back into normal IDLE?

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Bruce Sherwood | 13 Apr 2011 02:16
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As far as I know, no. It's a good example of the very slow pace of
making changes. The VIDLE work was completed by Guilherme Polo in the
2009 Google Summer of Code, in a Python-community sanctioned project,
and Guido has given his blessing to the changes, but the process for
getting changes into the standard IDLE distribution remains opaque and
glacial. I gather it isn't anyone's "fault", and people are busy, but
somehow IDLE is an orphan in comparison with other aspects of Python.

Bruce Sherwood

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:59 PM, phil jones <interstar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Did the VIDLE changes and fixes ever get back into normal IDLE?
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Ned Deily | 13 Apr 2011 03:20
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In article <BANLkTinyoVcZ9nPHMKXZYMOac0YR6RbxUg <at> mail.gmail.com>,
 Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood <at> ncsu.edu> wrote:
> As far as I know, no. It's a good example of the very slow pace of
> making changes. The VIDLE work was completed by Guilherme Polo in the
> 2009 Google Summer of Code, in a Python-community sanctioned project,
> and Guido has given his blessing to the changes, but the process for
> getting changes into the standard IDLE distribution remains opaque and
> glacial. I gather it isn't anyone's "fault", and people are busy, but
> somehow IDLE is an orphan in comparison with other aspects of Python.

It's not so much opaque as it is time-consuming and a fair amount of 
work.  I promised to review them and get them in and I'm still intending 
to do that.  I'm sorry it's taking this long.  For one thing, getting 
the 3.2 release out the door turned got in the way.  The fixes 
themselves need work to be upgraded to the latest releases and then 
there is testing that needs to be done on all platforms.  If anyone is 
willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows 
users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.

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Tal Einat | 13 Apr 2011 04:37
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Re: Talking of updates to IDLE

I would be willing to help with testing, and have quite some experience with testing IDLE.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ned Deily <nad <at> acm.org> wrote:
In article <BANLkTinyoVcZ9nPHMKXZYMOac0YR6RbxUg <at> mail.gmail.com>,
 Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood <at> ncsu.edu> wrote:
> As far as I know, no. It's a good example of the very slow pace of
> making changes. The VIDLE work was completed by Guilherme Polo in the
> 2009 Google Summer of Code, in a Python-community sanctioned project,
> and Guido has given his blessing to the changes, but the process for
> getting changes into the standard IDLE distribution remains opaque and
> glacial. I gather it isn't anyone's "fault", and people are busy, but
> somehow IDLE is an orphan in comparison with other aspects of Python.

It's not so much opaque as it is time-consuming and a fair amount of
work.  I promised to review them and get them in and I'm still intending
to do that.  I'm sorry it's taking this long.  For one thing, getting
the 3.2 release out the door turned got in the way.  The fixes
themselves need work to be upgraded to the latest releases and then
there is testing that needs to be done on all platforms.  If anyone is
willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows
users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.

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phelix | 13 Apr 2011 09:24
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Re: Talking of updates to IDLE


> If anyone is
> willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows
> users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.
windows user, willing to test
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phil jones | 13 Apr 2011 10:20
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Re: Talking of updates to IDLE

I'd be willing to help with testing of IDLE on Ubuntu if there's a
need for that. Is there a document (say a wiki page somewhere) which
tells us what / how to test?

phil

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>> If anyone is
>> willing to help out with the testing, especially experienced Windows
>> users of IDLE, it would be a great to have your help when ready.
> windows user, willing to test
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Ned Deily | 14 Apr 2011 00:36
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In article <BANLkTimd8hjpTUgusUS=1od7en1J8SjJUg <at> mail.gmail.com>,
 phil jones <interstar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be willing to help with testing of IDLE on Ubuntu if there's a
> need for that. Is there a document (say a wiki page somewhere) which
> tells us what / how to test?

Not that I'm aware of.  Perhaps someone else knows of something? Writing 
some test session recipes would be a good start towards repeatable and 
possibly more automated testing.

And thanks all for the testing offers.

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Tal Einat | 15 Apr 2011 01:32
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The problem is that what one should test depends highly on what changes have been made. This is true always in the absence of a test suite, I guess. My point is that I can think of quite a few "testing recipes" but their coverage would be rather low, so I'm not sure how useful they would be.

Also, the ability to write tests when fixing bugs which make sure the bugs stay fixed is IMO a basic requirement. Doing this with recipes would make quickly make testing too time consuming.

Perhaps tests written with something like Sikuli?

- Tal

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Ned Deily <nad <at> acm.org> wrote:
In article <BANLkTimd8hjpTUgusUS=1od7en1J8SjJUg <at> mail.gmail.com>,
 phil jones <interstar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be willing to help with testing of IDLE on Ubuntu if there's a
> need for that. Is there a document (say a wiki page somewhere) which
> tells us what / how to test?

Not that I'm aware of.  Perhaps someone else knows of something? Writing
some test session recipes would be a good start towards repeatable and
possibly more automated testing.

And thanks all for the testing offers.

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Terry Reedy | 15 Apr 2011 03:06
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On 4/14/2011 7:32 PM, Tal Einat wrote:

> Perhaps tests written with something like Sikuli <http://sikuli.org/>?

I have thought of that too. I just found this page:
http://sikuli.org/docx/faq/020-unit-test.html

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Tal Einat | 13 Apr 2011 02:23
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Re: Talking of updates to IDLE

Unfortunately, no.

I volunteered to do so about six months ago, but ended up not be able to free the time required.

If anyone else wants to do this, go ahead, I haven't even made any significant progress :(

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:59 AM, phil jones <interstar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
Did the VIDLE changes and fixes ever get back into normal IDLE?


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