Wingide is a beautiful application

Jonathan Ellis jbellis at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 23:54:44 EST 2005


James wrote:
> >> I haven't used an IDE in a long time but gave wing ide a try because
> >> I wanted the same development platform on Linux and Windows.

> Then you owe it to yourself to also try SPE, PyDev and Boa Constructor
> (got off to a slow start, but it looks promising now). All are free,
> open source, cross platform, native look and feel and support more or
> less the features you list.

In my experience Boa Constructor isn't worth bothering with.  It's far
too bugy for practical use.

> Two minor peeves about WingIDE.
> 1.) Not native look and feel.

Well...  GTK is as native as anything else, on Linux.  Even on Windows
GTK apps seem to be spreading; I've been using GIMP and GAIM long
enough that I guess "not quite native" doesn't bug me anymore.

> 2.) Auto List members implementation is great. But what about call
> tips? Just as important and every other Python IDE has it.

Wing shows calltip info in the Source Assistant panel.  (Pro version
only, IIRC.)

-Jonathan




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