So, I give it a try and submit a "wish list" for an ideal IDE for Python/Zope. Maybe some words about the IDEs I have been working with, so you can track where the features I wish to have come from: I used CodeWarrior, NetBeans, jEdit for both Java and Python/Zope, Boa Constructor and Eclipse with several plugins (like Omondo UML plugin, TruStudio and PyDev). And here comes the list of features: - Syntax coloring (standard everywhere) for python and zpt/xml/html/css code. - Commenting/uncommenting code (any hope Python will ever offer multi-line comments?). - Auto-completion for python and zpt/xml/html/css, incl. parameter editing. One should be able to specify the path to modules: for example I have a Python installation and a Zope installation with Python offering different modules. - Show declaration: jump to definition of classes/instances elsewhere in the code using a context menu. - Refactoring: actions, such as renaming a class, method or module and modify all references in the rest of the code; move classes and methods up or down in the class hierarchy. Eclipse supports this for Java and it saves a LOT of time, - Unit tests with reporting. - Folding: show/hide parts of the source code (like in jEdit). - Split windows. - Project management. - CVS/Subversion integration. - Search/replace, incl. regex in open files, project, - Compare and edit files/folders (diff, meld). - Drag&drop editing. - Multi-threaded debugging. - Outline: display classes, methods, attributes of a source file. - Class/method popup. - Bookmarks. - Class browser: multi-part window for browsing and editing classes and their methods and attributes. Similar to the NeXTstep file browser and the Java Browser perspective in Eclipse. - UML editor (incl. code generation and reverse engineering). Eclipse has several UML plugins and offers a language-independent modelling framework (EMF) that supports code generation. This could be adapted for Python. - Design patterns, templates: not found anywhere, yet, but might be an interesting feature, especially for Zope development, where we have a lot of recipes that need to be applied often. - Pydoc integration: show the docs simultaneously with the code. - ZPT debugging, sensible error messages. - ZODB inspection: give insight into what is actually stored in the ZODB. - Ftp, WebDav - Launching/restarting Zope locally and remotely. - Python and Jython support. - Live error tracking (while typing). - Task management. - Calling trees: who calls whom and who is called by whom? Well, there is certainly more, but this is a start... ;-) One could start from Eclipse/PyDev (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) and add features. Does anybody (Martin) have concrete plans to do this? Also look at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/EclipsePythonIntegration 5 for more ideas. kind regards and success Andre Martin Kretschmar wrote:
Hello,
it looks as if some people are missing a nice Zope IDE.
So I would like to have your oppinions on what an ideal Zope IDE should look like and what technologies it should be built on.
Regards, Martin
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