On Dec 28, 10:24 pm, flebber <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 28, 10:16 pm, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 02:26 -0800, flebber wrote: > > > Can't help thinking they open sourced Pydev so they could bench it. > > > So? That isn't uncommon at all; to Open Source when you've moved on. > > > > I started thinking that the only consistent env each python person has > > > is idle as it ships in the install. > > > There is a plethora of Python IDE's [personally I use Monodevelop, which > > supports Python, and is fast and stable]. > > > > Sometimes we can contribute with money and sometimes with time, if I > > > was to contribute money to ensure that I and all new coming python > > > programmers could have a first class development environment to use > > > what would I donate to? At the moment no particular group seems > > > applicable. > > > Many projects accept donations via PayPal. Sourceforge supports this. > > > > Is pydev actively being developed and for who? SPE is a great idea but > > > is Stan still developing? Pyscripter is good but not 64 capable. Plus > > > none of these projects seem community centric. > > > Why not just check the repo and see the real answer for yourself? It is > > Open Source after all. > > <https://github.com/aptana/Pydev/commits/master> > > > > Maybe its just my wish, maybe something already exists, but to my mind > > > why is there not a central python community ide or plugin setup like > > > pydev or using pydev(since currently it is very good - to me), which I > > > know or at least could confidently donate time or money to further > > > python. > > > You could checkout the code of any Python IDE and hack on it. > > > > I think a community plugin architecture which contained components > > > like pydev, pyscripter, eclipse and eggs/pypm packages would give a > > > place I can contribute time as my skills grow and confidently donate > > > money knowing I am assisting the development of community tools and > > > packages we all can use. > > > So just do it. > > Yes you can answer questions, but have you really? Your answer seems > to be things are open source so who cares about community. > > > Many projects accept donations via PayPal. Sourceforge supports this. > > Of course any fool can throw his/her money away thats no challenge why > even use Paypal, I could have fun and by 10 bottles of vino and hand > them out to recovering alcoholics. > > Don't answer things just for the sake of it, if you have nothing > producive to say about furthering python and its community then say > that.
My apologise I didn't mean to be that aggressive. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list