On 3 sep, 17:11, Ariel Balter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I mostly agree. The main purpose of Spyder is to give people who use
> python, particularly for scientific work, a development environment
> similar to what the Matlab desktop gives for the Matlab language. I
> think it is wise to stay focused.
Exactly!
> In fact, I think the best aspect of a mature and transparent plugin
> system will be to smooth the way for others to contribute missing
> features, along the lines stated above, so that all the burden is not on
> Pierre.
As I wrote above, the plugin system is now public (v2.0) so others may
contribute by writing:
* I/O plugins for the variable explorer (to import/export from/to
new file types)
* integrated plugins: see the example of the 'pylint' plugin which
has been written as a 3rd-party plugin
> That being said, once it becomes easy to write plugins, I don't see why
> it would not be possible to write bindings for third party visualization
> applications such as those by Enthought. Enthought's are designed to be
> used interactively in real time.
Why not indeed.
> Anyway, I support the idea of focusing on getting Spyder up and running
> as Spyder, and adding whizbangs later.
Again, I completely agree.
> In the interest of full disclosure I should add that I am a total
> hypocrite about one feature. I hate that Matlab does not have project
> management (associating certain m files with certain projects so that
> one can open just the files needed for a given project at once). I have
> pushed for that in Spyder.
I understand... but you're not the only one. Every single person I
know who tried an IDE like Eclipse wanted Spyder to have a project
explorer.
> On 9/3/2010 7:13 AM, Jed Ludlow wrote:
>
> >> My preference is for a shell to make development easier, not as a
> >> front end to every scientific tool that doesn't have a GUI.
>
> > +1
>
> > It seems like there is less magic going on in Spyder 2 as compared to
> > Spyder 1.1, and I'm all for that. I like the model of a simple IDE for
> > IPython and the standard Python shell with a few conveniences to keep
> > code organized. I would hate to see it expand until it fulfills
> > Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: "Every program attempts to
> > expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand
> > are replaced by ones which can."
>
> --
> Ariel Balter
> arielbalter.com
>
> "Don't believe everything you think."
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