followup to comp.lang.perl.misc [I will read the other groups, too]
- The following suggestions result out of an one-day website review of Active State [1]. - http://lazaridis.com/samples/com/ActiveState/ *Suggestions:* Near Future: *Open* Source the Komodo IDE. Immediately: *Free* the Personal Edition for non-commercial use (now $29,95 ). *Change* "killer" to "dynamic": Komodo - The Dynamic IDE. *Clarify* product overview on the home page. *Simplify* Komodo Trial download. *Automate* license installation. *Enhance* Company Section - As a first step, a free personal edition (non-commercial and academic use) would help to spread the Komodo IDE within the communities. This would be a gentle contribution to the open source dynamic languages, which are a foundation for the ActiveStates business. An Open Source Komodo IDE would allow the several dynamic language communities to collaborate on a common goal. Dynamic Language are more powerfull than just for scripting, aren't they? Placing this power on top of an huge java source-code base, like eclipse is, reduces this power [3]. ActiveState has everything needed, including the backup of Sophos [4], a large scale company in the threat-management domain (which would benefit from an open-source implementation, too). This could (at a later point) become similar to the eclipse [2] project, but specialized on dynamic languages. - If you think that an Open Source Komodo IDE would be of benefit for the dynamic languages, just ensure to spread this thought around. - Any comments are very welcome. - [1] - http://www.activestate.com [2] - http://www.eclipse.org [3] - http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/dltk/ [4] - http://www.sophos.com/ . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
