Wing IDE for Python v. 3.0 beta1 released

[Robert Dailey]

He's secretly an employee of Wing IDE in disguise!!!

On 8/1/07, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua at eeinternet.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:28, John K Masters wrote:
>
> > On 15:34 Tue 31 Jul     , Wingware wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Wing IDE 3.0.  It is
> >> available from http://wingware.com/wingide/beta
> > If their support for paid customers is anything like their support for
> > prospective customers then I would leave well alone.
>
> I've had excellent support from them.  I'm sorry to hear your experiences
> have not been stellar.  Questions submitted to the bug or comment list
> usually get a response in one day or less.  And there are frequently
> respones by WingWare people to just about every question asked on the
> WingWare mailing list.
>
> > I have been trying wing for a few days but have noticed that
> > auto-completion does not work on all modules. I submitted this to wing
> > and was told that probably my PYTHONPATH was wrong.
>
> It may also not work if the IDE isn't sure what kind of object you are
> dealing with.  You can "clarify" this as documented with an
> assert(isinstance()) statement.
>
> > I subsequently submitted a question about the licensing, i.e. whether I
> > could use wing on a home setup using Debian Etch, where I develop my
> > apps, and a work setup, using Debian Etch, with no net access.
>
> From http://www.wingware.com/wingide/license:
>
> "Each Wing IDE user may run Wing on as many machines as needed for their
> own
> work, for all the operating systems which they have licensed. In order to
> reduce casual license sharing, which is a unfortunately a problem for
> small
> businesses like Wingware, licenses must be activated after installation on
> each machine."
>
> "We've worked hard to make this flexible and forgiving for valid
> customers.
> For example, reinstalling an OS and/or altering hardware usually should
> not
> break your activation. Also, activation can be done directly from Wing IDE
> and off-line activation is available if your machine does not have TCP
> port
> 80 (http) access to wingware.com. Each license is allowed three
> activations
> by default and more can be obtained on request from identifiable
> customers."
>
> > So far I have had no response
>
> I tend to let questions slide when they are answered in the documentation
> or
> on the web site.  Maybe the Wing developers/support personnel are the same
> way.
>
> j
>
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