| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [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. |
| Steven M. Gava | 44d3d1a | 2001-07-31 06:59:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | IDLE's recent development has been carried out in the IDLEfork project. |
| 6 | The objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution |
| 7 | environment which could be initialized prior to each run of user code. |
| Steven M. Gava | 44d3d1a | 2001-07-31 06:59:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |
| Steven M. Gava | 44d3d1a | 2001-07-31 06:59:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | Besides David and Guido, the main developers who have been 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. |
| Steven M. Gava | 44d3d1a | 2001-07-31 06:59:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | d9db3a6 | 2003-01-26 20:37:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration), |
| 22 | Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), and Chui Tey (RPC integration, debugger |
| 23 | integration and persistent breakpoints). |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | cca9122 | 2003-07-16 03:10:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | Scott David Daniels, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, Martin v. Löwis, |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | df506ea | 2005-06-12 04:33:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 26 | Jason Orendorff, Noam Raphael, Josh Robb, Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, and |
| 27 | Jeff Shute have submitted useful patches. Thanks, guys! |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog. |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | Please contact the IDLE maintainer to have yourself included here if you |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | are one of those we missed! |
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| Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
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