input:b0003v0627p0001e0001-e0,1,2,3,4,k110,111,112,r8,a0,1,m4,lsfw ,ˆl–Ðz¾”ªC]Šq@¹q§n21hßÌ „ ¿_‡I|¥ŠèªÃÏ(MIDLE History ============ This file contains the release messages for previous IDLE releases. As you read on you go back to the dark ages of IDLE's history. What's New in IDLEfork 0.8.1? ============================= *Release date: 22-Jul-2001* - New tarball released as a result of the 'revitalisation' of the IDLEfork project. - This release requires python 2.1 or better. Compatibility with earlier versions of python (especially ancient ones like 1.5x) is no longer a priority in IDLEfork development. - This release is based on a merging of the earlier IDLE fork work with current cvs IDLE (post IDLE version 0.8), with some minor additional coding by Kurt B. Kaiser and Stephen M. Gava. - This release is basically functional but also contains some known breakages, particularly with running things from the shell window. Also the debugger is not working, but I believe this was the case with the previous IDLE fork release (0.7.1) as well. - This release is being made now to mark the point at which IDLEfork is launching into a new stage of development. - IDLEfork CVS will now be branched to enable further development and exploration of the two "execution in a remote process" patches submitted by David Scherer (David's is currently in IDLEfork) and GvR, while stabilisation and development of less heavyweight improvements (like user customisation) can continue on the trunk. What's New in IDLEfork 0.7.1? ============================== *Release date: 15-Aug-2000* - First project tarball released. - This was the first release of IDLE fork, which at this stage was a combination of IDLE 0.5 and the VPython idle fork, with additional changes coded by David Scherer, Peter Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. IDLEfork 0.7.1 - 29 May 2000 ----------------------------- David Scherer - This is a modification of the CVS version of IDLE 0.5, updated as of 2000-03-09. It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. - If you have problems or suggestions, you should either contact me or post to the list at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev (making it clear that you are using this modified version of IDLE). - Changes: - The ExecBinding module, a replacement for ScriptBinding, executes programs in a separate process, piping standard I/O through an RPC mechanism to an OnDemandOutputWindow in IDLE. It supports executing unnamed programs (through a temporary file). It does not yet support debugging. - When running programs with ExecBinding, tracebacks will be clipped to exclude system modules. If, however, a system module calls back into the user program, that part of the traceback will be shown. - The OnDemandOutputWindow class has been improved. In particular, it now supports a readline() function used to implement user input, and a scroll_clear() operation which is used to hide the output of a previous run by scrolling it out of the window. - Startup behavior has been changed. By default IDLE starts up with just a blank editor window, rather than an interactive window. Opening a file in such a blank window replaces the (nonexistent) contents of that window instead of creating another window. Because of the need to have a well-known port for the ExecBinding protocol, only one copy of IDLE can be running. Additional invocations use the RPC mechanism to report their command line arguments to the copy already running. - The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the excessively large 'edit' menu has been split up into 'edit', 'format', and 'run'. - 'Python Documentation' now works on Windows, if the win32api module is present. - A few key bindings have been changed: F1 now loads Python Documentation instead of the IDLE help; shift-TAB is now a synonym for unindent. - New modules: E