[Eric] ANN: eric 5.0.0-RC1 released

[detlev]

On Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2010, Stjujsckij Nickolaj wrote:
>   All right.
> Actually I've already started porting — I've cloned your eric5 hg repo,
> started a branch for my work and made corresponding symlinks in my
> ~/.eric4/ directory.
> Can't say I've made much progress though (because of zero Eric/PyQt4
> experience), but plugin now could be loaded and configured (Preferences
> page). Still I cannot figure out what advantages "Eric4 plugin" project
> offers (except snapshot packing)

If you run/debug/... your plug-in project, an instance of eric will be started 
as the runtime environment for the plug-in.

> and what to do next — I don't see any
> error or backtrace neither in Log Viewer not in `eric4 --debug`. And
> plugin certainly doesn't work as intended yet (-:E
> 
>   Hopefully I'll keep making progress (slowly but steadily) and I'd be
> grateful for any advice about debugging plugins. And I hope you could help
> me with other (possibly stupid) questions that would certainly arise (-:E
> 
> P.S. [for everyone] I could publish my branch, but right now I don't see
> real need in doing this. Stiil, if you want to help, track progress or
> something, feel free to ask.
> 
> > I don't have intentions to backport it right now (time constraints).
> > It is backporting to Python 2 and to PyQt4 API v1. However, it should be
> > fairly straight forward (e.g. porting eric to Python3 and API v2
> > actually took me about 3 weeks). If you would like to give it a shot I
> > would recommend to do that as a separate plug-in (like the CVS plug-in).
> 
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