Mark Armendariz wrote:
But I do want some project management
Eclipse Mylar
, a debugger
Eclipse PDT
, and a link
between code word and PHP manual
Eclipse PDT: Mouseover for a description or Shift+F2 for the manual (browser
tab in the ide)
Sorry, don't mean to over-sell, but if more people use it I'm hoping it will
make it to 1.0 a little faster.
Mark
Nah, I think the Eclipse thingie is really slick and I gave PDT a spin
as well. Of course, I cannot do an in depth analysis in half an hour,
but since I know what I'm used to, what I want, and what I am looking
for in an IDE, I get a good first impression.
Unfortunately, PDT is similar to the other PHP solutions bolted onto
Eclipse. It seems never to work out for me, for example, I couldn't get
the debugger to work and after reading some docu and googling around I
already got annoyed. So much for an "out of the box" solution.
I did hear back from Mr. Lucka at Luckasoft and he explained what their
motivation and plans are. The difference supposedly is between the free
and commercial version of dbg and Luckasoft doesn't sell enough licenses
to warrant the investment into the commercial version. Mr. Lucka wrote
that after three years of selling EnginSite PHP they recovered about 1/3
of their development expenses. I didn't want to go down the path and
discuss with him why that most likely happened that way. Luckasoft makes
money selling software for product packaging, a PHP IDE is a side
product that they apparently work on in slow times. Mr. Lucka was so
nice to point out PHPEdit from WaterProof (www.waterproof.fr). It is
reasonably priced (80$) and seems to not require the annoying start/stop
of the debugger at script start. I put it through a quick test and I
really like it. This is for sure one candidate that offers the features
I want at a price I am willing to pay. I will compare it against
NuSphere PHPEd Pro which strikes me a bit overpriced for what it can do.
I'll report back.
David
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