On 12/28/2011 05:11 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:50 am, Lie Ryan<lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
In case you haven't realised it, it is pretty
much impossible for a large open source project to "die"; even if Guido
decided to remove IDLE from the standard library
I don't remember stating that Python would die if IDLE was removed
(not sure if you misunderstood me or you're just making a general
statement???). My belief is that the atrocious state of IDLE and
Tkinter's code bases are making us look bad as a community. And i can
go either way on the issue; remove them both, or enrich them both.
Either way we improve on the current situation. My point is that we
CANNOT just ignore the issue.
The point is, I didn't think it's such a pressing issue. I haven't seen
anyone in or outside Python communities making their conclusion about
Python based on IDLE.
In any case, removing IDLE without a much better replacement is pretty
much out of the question. If people installed Python in vanilla Windows
install, they would only have Notepad to edit their code.
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