PyDoc - Python Documentation Plugin for Eclipse

[Alexey Gaidamaka]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:37:50 +0000, Alexey Gaidamaka wrote:

> 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 nothing, but it would prevent the documentation from being outdated.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.

http://pydoc.tk/news.html

TBD: 

1. updating and installing plugin through standard Eclipse "work with..." 
dialogue
2. reduce size of the original plugin that utilizes static content