Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >> I love eric3, but if you're an eclipse fan, look at enthought's > >> "envisage" IDE -- it seems to me that it has superb promise. ... > > Is it available for download somewhere? > > Alex is, I think, jumping the gun a bit. Envisage isn't quite ready for > prime time as your day to day IDE. It might be useful to you right now
I apologize if I gave a misleading impression: I did not mean it was ready to use, or _already_ here; I suggested "looking at" in the sense of "paying attention to", and specifically mentioned "promise". Since the subthread was about future IDE developments, I thought it was appropriate to mention envisage, in the context of comparisons with eclipse's plugin-centered architecture. > as a platform to build a dynamic GUI application (Envisage's intended > use) if you are willing to get your hands dirty and help us build > Envisage. Hence, it is not being advertised widely. I saw a Pycon proposed talk about it, so I didn't stop to consider the "not advertised widely" issue. Thinking about it, I realize Pycon is almost 3 months from now, so wanting to enthuse about envisage then doesn't imply already wanting to widely advertise it now; sorry. > But Alex is right; Envisage does hold a lot of promise. The very concept of an architecture based on a spare skeleton and copious plugins is intrinsically excellent, and I think that by now eclipse has proven it's also practically viable for real-world powerful IDEs/platforms/frameworks. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
