Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Stef Mientki wrote: >> I took a look at Eclipse page you mentioned but after reading the >> first page I still don't understand what you mean (and I never read >> beyond the first page ;-). >> > Well, what can I say ... > ;) > > >> With a plugin system, I can think of a complete operating system, >> or I can think of something like a DTP, or simply Word, >> or I can think of something like Signal WorkBench >> etc. >> > Yes exactly. As I said: Nothing in particular. Just an environment that > loads and unloads little bits if functionality, whatever those may be. > I think what most people think of when they hear "plugin" is: An > Application that can be extended. > An RCP provides no more than the next step: No monolithic app, just > plugins (which can have plugins themselves (which can have plugins > themselves (which ...))). Write a text editor component and use it in > your music-sequencer that also monitors your internet-activity, if you > must. > > >> I think if you don't express what all of the tasks of that framework >> will be, >> it's not well possible to create one. >> >> > Oh, but it is! Eclipse is such a framework. Pitty is, it's written in > Java. ;) > > >> Do you want just launching of applications, or do they have to >> communicate, >> exchange data, launch each other, create together one document or more >> general control one process, >> and lots of more questions ;-) >> > Who knows? Thats the beauty of it. Eclipse has been conceived as an > IDE/Text-Editor. But now it is just a platform for others to build > plugins for. Such as an IDE. There are plans to make an eclipse-based > general PIM (called Haystack, I think). The concept is very simple, but > for some reason, highly unusual at present. I'm pretty sure that this > will change sooner or later.
I took a look at some of the examples build with eclipse, and I might be wrong, but it's just another IDE, (like Delphi, Lazarus, Visual Basic, Kylix, Pida, Envisage, VisualWX, wxGlade, ...) what am I missing ? To have an IDE as good as Delphi in pure Python, would be still be great ;-) cheers, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
