Dear Pythoneers, Looking at IDE's I can have three observations: 1. For some reasons numerous users prefer to use an open source IDE. 2. For some reasons numerous python programmers like to develop an open source IDE. 3. For some reasons the open source python IDE developers are not collaborating at all. The reasons for 1 or 2 are obvious, at least to me. Recently I have been wondering about the reason for 3. (Probably a lot of python programmers have wondered about this already for ages, but ok I might be slow ;-) I came to the conclusion that there was *NO* reason. As this was so clear, I started to invite all the authors of IDE's personally to collaborate all together. I hope that I didn't forget any, because there are so many. What is really nice, is that we feel the same: we should work together and share as much as possible. We don't want to waste our (often spare) time on reinventing wheels. Almost all IDE's (except of two) are participating no matter if they use Tkinter, wxPython, pyQT, Cocoa, pyGTK, ... (So this could open doors for an ajax python editor, who knows. Any python web framework like Django, Turbogears, ... interested in that?) These projects are participating: NewEdit, scrIDE, Eric3, Leo IDE, ActiveGrid, PIDA, drPython, pyDev, PyCrust, IPython, WinPdb debugger, Extended Python Debugger, PyLint, Gaphor, Envisage, Dabo, SilverCity & SPE. It is not about unification, but about a little bit more collaboration. There are always libraries to share, more as we might think. In order to give the project shape I started building a (wiki based) website in plone which together with a mailing list should give a good platform for collaboration. (You need to login to edit wiki's.) All the developers are already invited, but everyone willing to code or contribute (documentation, translation, artwork, plone website, ..) is welcome. If you work on open source project which might be of interest (parsing, uml, framework, ...) please join or invite the projects which you think should participate as well. We will probably work in smaller teams on the various aspects of IDE's and tools. If this project succeeds it could be a major win for the Python community. These are some useful links: - homepage: http://pyxides.stani.be - mail list: http://pyxides.stani.be/polls/mailing - starting mail: http://pyxides.stani.be/wiki/StartingEmail - developers reaction: http://pyxides.stani.be/wiki/AuthorsOfIDEsTools - poll: http://pyxides.stani.be/polls/20060310-firstfocus/PlonePopoll_results2 Stani PS IDLE is the only one which didn't answer my invitation yet, but we'd love them to be in the team as well. (Kurt?) -- http://pythonide.stani.be