[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: PyOXIDE 0.3 - Cocoa based Python IDE

[Just van Rossum]

Glenn Andreas wrote:

> PyOXIDE has finally reached a "mostly full featured" state - there 
> are still bugs, and a few other rough edges, but this version fixes a 
> lot of problems with debugging, add breakpoint support, a re-written 
> module browser (that actually acts more like a browser), the ability 
> to run scripts externally, and the ability to profile modules, as 
> well as various bug fixes and the like.
> 
> PyOXIDE 0.3 is now freely available on my idisk (as PyOXIDE_0.3.dmg):
>   http://homepage.mac.com/gandreas/
> 
> Hopefully 0.3 is stable enough and feature-rich enough to accomplish 
> anything that you could have done in the old IDE (and then some).
> 
> Unless there are major problems that require another release, the 
> plan is for 0.4 to add support for "projects", as well as (hopefully) 
> full Objective-C source (including the "IDE Kit"), and a few other 
> architectual changes, but that may take a bit, so I figured that this 
> would be a good point to get it out the door.
> 
> 
> If there are any other features/capabilities that you'd like see, 
> please let me know.

I'm a little annoyed you don't give the original MacPython IDE any
credit, while when I read the (Python) sources I see some familiar code.
You would do the community a great favor to publish the full source; it
would be great to bundle our resources and make this a collaborative
effort.

Just