He's secretly an employee of Wing IDE in disguise!!!
On 8/1/07, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:28, John K Masters wrote: > > > On 15:34 Tue 31 Jul , Wingware wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Wing IDE 3.0. It is > >> available from http://wingware.com/wingide/beta > > If their support for paid customers is anything like their support for > > prospective customers then I would leave well alone. > > I've had excellent support from them. I'm sorry to hear your experiences > have not been stellar. Questions submitted to the bug or comment list > usually get a response in one day or less. And there are frequently > respones by WingWare people to just about every question asked on the > WingWare mailing list. > > > I have been trying wing for a few days but have noticed that > > auto-completion does not work on all modules. I submitted this to wing > > and was told that probably my PYTHONPATH was wrong. > > It may also not work if the IDE isn't sure what kind of object you are > dealing with. You can "clarify" this as documented with an > assert(isinstance()) statement. > > > I subsequently submitted a question about the licensing, i.e. whether I > > could use wing on a home setup using Debian Etch, where I develop my > > apps, and a work setup, using Debian Etch, with no net access. > > From http://www.wingware.com/wingide/license: > > "Each Wing IDE user may run Wing on as many machines as needed for their > own > work, for all the operating systems which they have licensed. In order to > reduce casual license sharing, which is a unfortunately a problem for > small > businesses like Wingware, licenses must be activated after installation on > each machine." > > "We've worked hard to make this flexible and forgiving for valid > customers. > For example, reinstalling an OS and/or altering hardware usually should > not > break your activation. Also, activation can be done directly from Wing IDE > and off-line activation is available if your machine does not have TCP > port > 80 (http) access to wingware.com. Each license is allowed three > activations > by default and more can be obtained on request from identifiable > customers." > > > So far I have had no response > > I tend to let questions slide when they are answered in the documentation > or > on the web site. Maybe the Wing developers/support personnel are the same > way. > > j > > -- > Joshua Kugler > Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer > http://www.eeinternet.com > PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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