| xf.li | 8611891 | 2025-03-19 20:07:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the |
| 2 | original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include |
| 3 | Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka. |
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| 5 | IDLE's recent development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The |
| 6 | objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment |
| 7 | which could be initialized prior to each run of user code. |
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| 9 | The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter |
| 10 | Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC |
| 11 | code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed |
| 12 | the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood |
| 13 | contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork |
| 16 | are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new |
| 17 | configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed |
| 18 | the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded |
| 19 | subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements. |
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| 21 | Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration), |
| 22 | Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration), |
| 23 | Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC |
| 24 | integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints). |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, |
| 27 | Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb, |
| 28 | Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful |
| 29 | patches. Thanks, guys! |
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| 31 | For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog. |
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| 33 | Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included |
| 34 | here if you are one of those we missed! |
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