PyDoc - Python Documentation Plugin for Eclipse

Alexey Gaidamaka ahaidamaka at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 11:37:50 EDT 2012


On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:02:35 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:

> On 6/10/2012 4:22 AM, Alexey Gaidamaka wrote:
>> Practically the plugin  is a simple html archive from python
>> documentation website running
>> inside Eclipse so you can call it using Eclipse help system. As for now
>> it is pretty large (~7 mb), but i'm planning to optimize it in near
>> future.
> Rather than archive documentation, why not use a simple static page that
> points to the different sections for each version of Python on
> docs.python.org? The 2.7.3 documentation is mostly useless to me since
> I'm using 3.3 (and of course there are some using 2.6 or 3.2 or 3.1...),
> but I can easily access it from a link in the page you've archived. Not
> only would this reduce the size of the plugin to almost nothing, but it
> would prevent the documentation from being outdated.
> 
>> For more information, please visit:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pydoc/
> Why isn't it installed like other Eclipse plugins? Is it even possible
> to update the plugin via Eclipse?
> 
> 
> This does look like a very useful plugin, though. Great idea.

Thanx! All that you've mentioned is planned in the next versions of the 
plugin.




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