[Dev] Eclipse with chandler

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Alec,

I haven't tried Eclipse recently, I probably should.

I'm somewhat hesitant to push this, it seems like text editor choices 
are the bread and butter of geek religious wars, but I'm very fond of 
Boa Constructor (I use it when I'm not using Emacs).  It lacks polish, 
but it does all the things you mention.  Once you get used to its 
occasional oddities, it's Free and written in Python and wxPython, I 
like the dogfood aspect there.

The main problems with Boa are install related, the branch that works 
with wxPython 2.5 is still in pre-release, the older branch works well 
but you have to have wxPython 2.4 installed.  This can be worked around 
by choosing one Python to run Boa with and another (Chandler's Python, 
for instance) for debugging code, but that's kind of a hassle.

To try an even vaguely recent version of Boa you need to download the 
source code from CVS, see 
http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/BoaInstallGuide#cvs for the stable 
branch, and 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.boa-constructor.user/1283 for 
the wxPython 2.5 compatible branch.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey