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[Steve Menard]

Markus Wankus wrote:
> Ville Vainio wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Wankus 
>>>>>>> <markus_wankusGETRIDOFALLCAPS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
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>>     Markus> If you don't mind "bleeding edge" software - pydev for
>>     Markus> Eclipse is coming along.  You can try it for yourself:
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>>     Markus> http://pydev.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Too bad pydev development seems to be stopping - the developer is
>> losing interest in the project (or at least that is what is said on
>> the project page). I tried it yesterday, it seems very promising
>> (though the debugger was very slow).
>>
>> Eclipse is the only candidate worthy of replacing Emacs in the future,
>> so here's to hoping someone will adopt the pydev project at some
>> point.
>>
> 
> I agree.  I think there are a few other developers on the project that 
> will take over where Aleks leaves off.  I will definitely get involved 
> in the future as time permits. I think this project will rock if we 
> could integrate jpype when it is ready (http://jpype.sourceforge.net/).
> 
> But you are correct - you do need some sort of type system in the 
> language to get all the features of the Java editor.  You could do some 
> rudimentary stuff (like the way Pythonwin works for instance) right 
> away.  The big thing we need is a *real* debugger - the editor stuff can 
> come later.
> Seeing just how amazing Eclipse is for Java development makes me wonder 
> if the designers of Java had more than the language in mind when 
> developing it.  Perhaps they were thinking ahead to the future of the 
> IDE they would use to develop the language....
> 
> Markus.

Regarding JPype and Eclipse

Actually you are right. When I started JPype I immediatly saw where it 
could help in eclipse. Let's face it, people interested in a Python 
editor will not want to spend long hours coding it ... in Java.

I do not know how easy it will be to implement Eclipse plugins/extension 
in Python, but I sure will try. :)

Steve Menard