Ranting about the state of Python IDEs for Windows

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Carlos Ribeiro" <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.3261.1095106220.5135.python-list at python.org...

> The only partial exception so far is Boa Constructor. Riaan is
> responsive, and there is a lot of things implemented. However, it's
> far from perfect. It's heavy, takes a long time to load ...

That's because your PC suck!

On top of that, Windows 98 SE sucks even more, being possibly the worst
aggregation of misfeatures to be built ontop of the already shaky dos-based
Windows lineage!!

The real problem is that nobody is likely to help you much because the
developers themselves have moved on to bigger and better platforms;

Clever IDE's *need* ample memory and CPU to draw all the pretty pictures and
generate all that code on-the-fly, the developers usually have all that in
abundance, so it is not likely that anyone designing IDE's will really
*care* enough to do any testing on Win 98 in a memory starved environment!!

I would bite it and Upgrade:

Windows XP is a decent enough OS, IMO, and a bottom-of-the-range PC - which
is a 1 GHz Athlon with 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2 graphics and 40 GB HDD - can
often be had at less than USD 200. An entirely different stratosfere, from
what you are used to - and I bet some of the stability problems with many of
the IDEs' will disappear too.