Okay i watched all 3 screencasts I don't know if they come with audio commentary, i couldn't hear any (might be a problem at my side) so maybe that explains if i missed something. But from what i've seen, the only thing they can show off, is some intelligent code generation, and "real time updating" of for example an id attribute of an xml element while you edit the contents of it. Okay, nice, but i'm the IDE kind of guy who also wants features like subversion integration, clever searching utilities, global & project specific settings, debugging, etc etc. All these things are easily achieved by combining eclipse with some plugins like subclipse, phpeclipse etc. These guys have lots, and i mean _lots_ or programming to do if they want to implement such features (hey, i read they are building intype as an extendable platform through plugins, that's cool, but still somebody has to write all of it). And I'm not talking about bloated features, but things that are really useful for day-to-day use.
Maybe this isn't meant to be a full ide, but more of an "advanced editor". In that case it's another story. Although i don't see how any "somewhat decent" php programmer would prefer an "advanced editor" over a decent ide, but that's another discussion. On the other hand, the code completing features i've seen in the screencast are nice, and i don't think you can achieve that with eclipse. But writing such a feature for eclipse should require little effort, at least compared to the work intype has to do to become a stable,decent product. Also intype isn't free (free both as in beer, as in liberty, it's not opensource) That has some consequences... Eclipse on the other hand, is free (in both ways), and cross platform (intype is only for windows). Intype is probably lot's faster (compiled to binary format, probably i386, while eclipse is java based) that's about the only real advantage i see of it. just my 2 cents. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
