Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

Changing only master could make backports difficult to impractical.  (Pure 
module name changes would be an exception if gits keep track of them and 
reverses them for a backport.)

If a module is touched, user changes to that module get wiped out when the 
module is replaced.  Aside from that, most of idlelib was declared private and 
'subject to change' to allow refactoring.  The only problem I have heard about 
is that 3.6 broke IDLEX (as I expected).  IDLEX which made changes far beyond 
the narrow extension protocol.  Roger solved that by incorporating a private 
copy of 3.5 IDLE with whatever modifications he wants.  This is exactly what 
Nick said people should do, in the 3.6 alpha discussion, if they wanted frozen 
IDLE.

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