On Mar 23, 7:58 am, Fabio Zadrozny <fabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > As I've proposed it, let me try to explain it a bit better (if you have > doubts, I should probably rephrase the proposal). > > There are 2 main targets there: keeping PyDev properly supported (which > hopefully doesn't need more explanation) and creating LiClipse. > > The idea for LiClipse is definitely not making a fork, but having an easier > way to add a basic editor inside Eclipse (while developing PyDev, I do get > many requests for adding support for editors related to Python, such as > Django templates, Mako, Restructured text, Cython, etc), so, this will > provide me with a basis to do that (and with the basis in place, the idea > is having the possibility of creating an editor without knowledge of > Eclipse and in a very fast way -- current technologies for that such as > DLTK or XText aim much higher and are not trivial. I really want to have a > way to have a basic editor inside Eclipse just specifying the language very > 'loosely' -- say, something that'd take you 15-30 minutes and almost no > special knowledge of Eclipse internals -- and which would need more > knowledge of Eclipse internals only for more advanced stuff). > > As for the dark theme, it's something that annoys me a lot (so, I was > hoping it was also something interesting for other people -- right now, > it's not possible to have a professional dark theme in Eclipse, there are > many loose ends -- so, for those that would like to work with a dark theme > -- as myself -- it may be very annoying -- although yes, it may not be > applicable if you're happy with the current non-dark UI). > > As for distributions, yes, I plan to do an Eclipse distribution with > LiClipse / PyDev bundled -- Easy Eclipse is definitely not a solution as it > is NOT supported (it has an ancient version of PyDev which only serves to > confuse users and Eclipse.org does not have a Python version with PyDev). > I'd hardly call that a fork thought (and it should be possible to install > it as a separate plugin anyways, so, you can use the Eclipse you got from > anywhere and just use the update site to get those plugins). > > Cheers, > > Fabio
I am interested in the new eclipse plugin capabilities. Where does liclipse stand with respect to this? ie Eclipse-4 claims to have made plugin development (for new custom languages) easier. What is the relation of liclipse to eclipse 3<->4 plugin architecture? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list