Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | +++++++++++++ |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | IDLEfork NEWS |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | +++++++++++++ |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 2? |
| 6 | =================================== |
Kurt B. Kaiser | 2cb5402 | 2002-12-31 18:12:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | *Release date: XX-XXX-2003* |
Kurt B. Kaiser | 2cb5402 | 2002-12-31 18:12:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | 5ec186b | 2003-01-17 04:04:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | - Left cursor move in presence of selected text now moves from left end |
| 11 | of the selection. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Add Meta keybindings to "IDLE Classic Windows" to handle reversed |
| 14 | Alt/Meta on some Linux distros. |
| 15 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | 8e92bf7 | 2003-01-14 22:03:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | - Change default: IDLE now starts with Python Shell. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | - Removed the File Path from the Additional Help Sources scrolled list. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | - Add capability to access Additional Help Sources on the web if the |
| 21 | Help File Path begins with //http or www. (Otherwise local path is |
| 22 | validated, as before.) |
| 23 | |
| 24 | - Additional Help Sources were not being posted on the Help menu in the |
| 25 | order entered. Implement sorting the list by [HelpFiles] 'option' |
| 26 | number. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - Add Browse button to New Help Source dialog. Arrange to start in |
| 29 | Python/Doc if platform is Windows, otherwise start in current directory. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - Put the Additional Help Sources directly on the Help menu instead of in |
| 32 | an Extra Help cascade menu. Rearrange the Help menu so the Additional |
| 33 | Help Sources come last. Update help.txt appropriately. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | - Fix Tk root pop-ups in configSectionNameDialog.py and configDialog.py |
| 36 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | - Uniform capitalization in General tab of ConfigDialog, update the doc string. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | - Fix bug in ConfigDialog where SaveAllChangedConfig() was unexpectedly |
| 40 | deleting Additional Help Sources from the user's config file. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | - Make configHelpSourceEdit OK button the default and bind <Return> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Fix Tk root pop-ups in configHelpSourceEdit: error dialogs not attached |
| 45 | to parents. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | - Use os.startfile() to open both Additional Help and Python Help on the |
| 48 | Windows platform. The application associated with the file type will act as |
| 49 | the viewer. Windows help files (.chm) are now supported via the |
| 50 | Settings/General/Additional Help facility. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | - If Python Help files are installed locally on Linux, use them instead of |
| 53 | accessing python.org. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | - Make the methods for finding the Python help docs more robust, and make |
| 56 | them work in the installed configuration, also. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | - On the Save Before Run dialog, make the OK button the default. One |
| 59 | less mouse action! |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - Add a method: EditorWindow.get_geometry() for future use in implementing |
| 62 | window location persistence. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | - Removed the "Help/Advice" menu entry. Thanks, David! We'll remember! |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - Change the "Classic Windows" theme's paste key to be <ctrl-v>. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - Rearrange the Shell menu to put Stack Viewer entries adjacent. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | - Add the ability to restart the subprocess interpreter from the shell window; |
| 71 | add an associated menu entry "Shell/Restart". Update help. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | - Upon a restart, annotate the shell window with a "restart boundary". Add a |
| 74 | shell window menu "Shell/View Restart" and hotkey to jump to the most recent |
| 75 | restart boundary. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | - Change the shell window menu "Debug" to "Shell"; change "Settings" to |
| 78 | "Options". |
| 79 | |
| 80 | - Remove incorrect comment in setup.py: IDLEfork is now installed as a package. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | - Add INSTALL.txt, HISTORY.txt, NEWS.txt to installed configuration. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | - In installer text, fix reference to Visual Python, should be VPython. |
| 85 | Properly credit David Scherer. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | - Modified idle, idle.py, idle.pyw to improve exception handling. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | - Known issues: |
| 90 | |
| 91 | + Can't kill a tight loop in the Windows version: Insert a |
| 92 | ``print "*",`` in an outer loop or use the Task Manager to kill. |
| 93 | + Printing under Linux may be problematic. |
| 94 | + The debugger is pretty slow. |
| 95 | + RPC stack levels are not being pruned from debugger tracebacks. |
Kurt B. Kaiser | 2cb5402 | 2002-12-31 18:12:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 97 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 1? |
| 99 | =================================== |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | *Release date: 31-Dec-2002* |
Steven M. Gava | 88ff736 | 2001-07-21 09:50:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | - First release of major new functionality. For further details refer to |
| 104 | Idle-dev and/or the Sourceforge CVS. |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | - Adapted to the Mac platform. |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | - Overhauled the IDLE startup options and revised the idle -h help message, |
| 109 | which provides details of command line usage. |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | - Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | - Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The output |
| 114 | of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to inspect the |
| 115 | environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 the shell |
| 116 | environment was separate from the environment of the user code.) |
| 117 | |
| 118 | - Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. |
| 119 | |
| 120 | - Removed David Scherer's Remote Procedure Call code and replaced with Guido |
| 121 | van Rossum's. GvR code has support for the IDLE debugger and uses the shell |
| 122 | to inspect the environment of code Run from an Edit window. Files removed: |
| 123 | ExecBinding.py, loader.py, protocol.py, Remote.py, spawn.py |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | |
| 125 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | |
| 127 | What's New in IDLEfork 0.8.1? |
| 128 | ============================= |
| 129 | |
| 130 | *Release date: 22-Jul-2001* |
| 131 | |
| 132 | - New tarball released as a result of the 'revitalisation' of the IDLEfork |
| 133 | project. |
| 134 | |
| 135 | - This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatability with earlier |
| 136 | versions of python (especially ancient ones like 1.5x) is no longer a |
| 137 | priority in IDLEfork development. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | - This release is based on a merging of the earlier IDLE fork work with current |
| 140 | cvs IDLE (post IDLE version 0.8), with some minor additional coding by Kurt |
| 141 | B. Kaiser and Stephen M. Gava. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | - This release is basically functional but also contains some known breakages, |
| 144 | particularly with running things from the shell window. Also the debugger is |
| 145 | not working, but I believe this was the case with the previous IDLE fork |
| 146 | release (0.7.1) as well. |
| 147 | |
| 148 | - This release is being made now to mark the point at which IDLEfork is |
| 149 | launching into a new stage of development. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | - IDLEfork CVS will now be branched to enable further development and |
| 152 | exploration of the two "execution in a remote process" patches submitted by |
| 153 | David Scherer (David's is currently in IDLEfork) and GvR, while stabilisation |
| 154 | and development of less heavyweight improvements (like user customisation) |
| 155 | can continue on the trunk. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | |
| 158 | What's New in IDLE fork 0.7.1? |
| 159 | ============================== |
| 160 | |
| 161 | *Release date: 15-Aug-2000* |
| 162 | |
| 163 | - First project tarball released. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | - This was the first release of IDLE fork, which at this stage was a |
| 166 | combination of IDLE 0.5 and the VPython idle fork, with additional changes |
| 167 | coded by David Scherer, Peter Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | |
| 170 | |
| 171 | IDLE fork 0.7.1 - 29 May 2000 |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | ----------------------------- |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | David Scherer <dscherer@cmu.edu> |
| 175 | |
| 176 | - This is a modification of the CVS version of IDLE 0.5, updated as of |
| 177 | 2000-03-09. It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you |
| 178 | get to keep both pieces. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | - If you have problems or suggestions, you should either contact me or post to |
| 181 | the list at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev (making it clear |
| 182 | that you are using this modified version of IDLE). |
| 183 | |
| 184 | - Changes: |
| 185 | |
| 186 | - The ExecBinding module, a replacement for ScriptBinding, executes programs |
| 187 | in a separate process, piping standard I/O through an RPC mechanism to an |
| 188 | OnDemandOutputWindow in IDLE. It supports executing unnamed programs |
| 189 | (through a temporary file). It does not yet support debugging. |
| 190 | |
| 191 | - When running programs with ExecBinding, tracebacks will be clipped to |
| 192 | exclude system modules. If, however, a system module calls back into the |
| 193 | user program, that part of the traceback will be shown. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | - The OnDemandOutputWindow class has been improved. In particular, it now |
| 196 | supports a readline() function used to implement user input, and a |
| 197 | scroll_clear() operation which is used to hide the output of a previous run |
| 198 | by scrolling it out of the window. |
| 199 | |
| 200 | - Startup behavior has been changed. By default IDLE starts up with just a |
| 201 | blank editor window, rather than an interactive window. Opening a file in |
| 202 | such a blank window replaces the (nonexistent) contents of that window |
| 203 | instead of creating another window. Because of the need to have a |
| 204 | well-known port for the ExecBinding protocol, only one copy of IDLE can be |
| 205 | running. Additional invocations use the RPC mechanism to report their |
| 206 | command line arguments to the copy already running. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | - The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the excessively large |
| 209 | 'edit' menu has been split up into 'edit', 'format', and 'run'. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | - 'Python Documentation' now works on Windows, if the win32api module is |
| 212 | present. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | - A few key bindings have been changed: F1 now loads Python Documentation |
| 215 | instead of the IDLE help; shift-TAB is now a synonym for unindent. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | - New modules: |
| 218 | |
| 219 | ExecBinding.py Executes program through loader |
| 220 | loader.py Bootstraps user program |
| 221 | protocol.py RPC protocol |
| 222 | Remote.py User-process interpreter |
| 223 | spawn.py OS-specific code to start programs |
| 224 | |
| 225 | - Files modified: |
| 226 | |
| 227 | autoindent.py ( bindings tweaked ) |
| 228 | bindings.py ( menus reorganized ) |
| 229 | config.txt ( execbinding enabled ) |
| 230 | editorwindow.py ( new menus, fixed 'Python Documentation' ) |
| 231 | filelist.py ( hook for "open in same window" ) |
| 232 | formatparagraph.py ( bindings tweaked ) |
| 233 | idle.bat ( removed absolute pathname ) |
| 234 | idle.pyw ( weird bug due to import with same name? ) |
| 235 | iobinding.py ( open in same window, EOL convention ) |
| 236 | keydefs.py ( bindings tweaked ) |
| 237 | outputwindow.py ( readline, scroll_clear, etc ) |
| 238 | pyshell.py ( changed startup behavior ) |
| 239 | readme.txt ( <Recursion on file with id=1234567> ) |
Steven M. Gava | d39993e | 2001-07-20 01:36:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | |
| 241 | |
Kurt B. Kaiser | a7b804f | 2003-01-10 21:27:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 243 | Refer to HISTORY.txt for additional information on earlier releases. |
| 244 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
David Scherer | 7aced17 | 2000-08-15 01:13:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | |
| 246 | |
David Scherer | 7aced17 | 2000-08-15 01:13:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | |
| 248 | |
David Scherer | 7aced17 | 2000-08-15 01:13:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | |