I am not affiliated with the company or product I'm about to discuss in any
way; I have not purchased it myself.
For those who are discouraged by the need to have a version of Visual Studio
that costs money (as the Express version doesn't support plug-ins) in order to
get IronPython integration with a commercial-quality IDE, there is a cheaper
alternative than purchasing the full Visual Studio.
The company RemObjects has built Chrome -- a .NET-only compiler for the Delphi
language (aka Object Pascal), and they've made a number of enhancements to it
to better support .NET concepts. (In many ways it compares to Delphi like
IronPython compares to CPython. Do not expect VCL support, however.) The
command-line version of the compiler is free to download, and is available for
Mono as well as for Windows. What they sell is the integration of Chrome into
the Visual Studio IDE (and other products unrelated to Chrome); they have a
"student / non-commercial academic" version for [as of today] EUR 49.
Until recently, you had to own VS to use Chrome's IDE integration. They have
now made it possible to buy "Chrome for Visual Studio" as before, or you can
buy "Chrome with Visual Studio" (Chrome inside a copy of VS) for about EUR 50
more (EUR 26 more for student version). It is my impression that you will be
able to plug IronPython into that version of VS, as they discuss on their site
the value of being able to use 3rd-party plug-ins for VS in conjunction with
Chrome. You can see the prices at
http://www.remobjects.com/order/
Scroll down past the subscriptions and suites (averting your eyes from the
prices on the right, lest yee be scared off!) until you get to the Chrome
section. Also, Delphi users get a price break.
My apologies if anyone thinks this is an inappropriate post; I'm just trying to
help those with small wallets get a good IDE for IronPython -- and there's
little wrong with Chrome for those (Delphi users) who already have their heads
around Object Pascal.
At 05:52 PM 8/30/2006, S H Yoon wrote
>http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/3770.aspx
>
>This gentleman Andy Tao appears to be working on IPY IDE and hit some problems,
[snip]
J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp
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