Ratcliffe, Jeffrey (Peters) wrote: > Sorry for this being slightly off-topic, but: > > Are any of you guys using an IDE? > > For want of anything better, I am using nedit, which looks foul on Ubuntu > Dapper, but is a miles better editor than gedit. > > I tried out Eclipse + EPIC, but the editor was nowhere near as nice as nedit > and I could only get Perl syntax highlighting if the file was .pl. > > And I haven't found anything else of note. > > Apart from xemacs, which I understand has some nice Perl features, but I > loath the interface almost as much as vi. > > What killer Perl IDE have I missed? > > Jeff >
I've tried out various incarnations of Eclipse and EPIC. It's nowhere near being ready yet, but looks promising. The only thing I've found that doesn't absolutely bite is ActiveState's Komodo. A license to do open-source only work is about $25, which really is quite reasonable. They're constantly updating it, and my license which I bought quite some time ago indeed is still good for the latest download. It's also a very nice product - good debugging, object inspection, etc. I'd be lost without it to be honest. A couple of other points: - A single license for a single developer ( can be installed on multiple PCs ) - One license covers Linux, Windows & OS-X versions - Decent tech support in forums - One IDE for many, many languages ( for me, Perl, PHP, XML, HTML ) My main complaint is that it's quite slow. It uses Mozilla's XUL ( in combination with Gtk2 ) for the GUI, and the result is ... pretty damned slow, but usable. Sorry about the ActiveState marketing, but it really is a good product. I am very interested in hearing about alternatives though - in particular if someone has EPIC working somewhat better than I do. Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
