Re: So far (about editing tools)

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Thursday 06 October 2005 15:45, Micah Elliott wrote: > On Oct 06, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > > The only _real_ problem is the eclipse learning curve. > > The only real *advantage* of Eclipse (over other suggested tools) is > its highly hyped automatic refactoring. Admittedly, I have not used > i

Re: So far (about editing tools)

2005-10-06 Thread Kenneth McDonald
As I did mention in my original post, Eclipse is indeed bloated. However, in spite of that, I've found it both fast and reliable (much to surprise). The only real problem is learning what functionality (the majority) to ignore. PyDev offers nice integration with Python. If I run a python pro

Re: So far (about editing tools)

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Furthermore, Eclipse requires java and is thusly not provided on any > linux distro I'm familiar with, which I consider a huge roadblock. And > as mentioned, it's bloated. It comes with Fedora Core 4 and is compiled with gcj. > I would suspect that the

Re: So far (about editing tools)

2005-10-06 Thread Micah Elliott
On Oct 06, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > The only _real_ problem is the eclipse learning curve. The only real *advantage* of Eclipse (over other suggested tools) is its highly hyped automatic refactoring. Admittedly, I have not used it for Python development, but I'm skeptical of the feasibility of a

Re: So far (about editing tools)

2005-10-06 Thread Kenneth McDonald
This is something I fought with for a long time. My overwhelming vote is Eclipse with the PyDev plugin. (Google search should reveal this). Here are the pros and cons. 1) Eclipse is a _big_ system, with a strong emphasis on Java. So there's a lot of functionality you need to learn to ignore,