| 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 | c34ed8e | 2009-04-26 01:33:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |
| 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 | c34ed8e | 2009-04-26 01:33:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | 1821056 | 2003-06-12 03:51:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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), |
| Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 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). |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, |
| Terry Jan Reedy | 3567651 | 2016-01-16 23:44:04 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb, |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | c34ed8e | 2009-04-26 01:33:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful |
| 29 | patches. Thanks, guys! |
| 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 | For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog. |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | |
| Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included |
| 34 | here if you are one of those we missed! |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a137cc9 | 2002-12-20 01:19:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | |
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