[Eric] FW: Call for notes about Eric IDE

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

here are a few answers to your points.

1) I agree that it could be one click shorter. It was done this way in order to allow for variants 
being published in parallel (e.g. eric4 and eric5, which were maintained in parallel until about 4 
weeks ago).

2) Well, I am not able to do SCM plugins for every system around myself. Nevertheless, there 
will be a Git plug-in available for eric6, which is planned for release beginning of 2015. Plugins 
are made available via the plugin repository accessible from within eric.

3) It is correct, that eric has certain dependencies, that must be fulfilled in order to make use of 
it. I haven't found a sensible way to circumvent this. This is made even more difficult by the 
various distributions as they split some software into trillions of smaller packages (e.g. Qt4 and 
PyQt4). As each distro does it differently I see no chance to write a universal installation 
instruction. However, everybody is welcomed to provide such instructions.

4) The QtSql module is needed by the QtHelp system used by eric. The external 
Autocompletion provider (eric assistant) available as a plugin needs QtSql as well because the 
information is stored in a database.

5) eric 5.5 works with Python3 and Python2. It is your choice. My main development 
environment is Python3.

OS X 1) The eric package includes a README file detailing the installation steps for OS X. 
They worked on my Mac for several years now.

If you are looking for an 'easy install' environment I would recommend to use eric on Windows 
because the PyQt installer already includes most of the stuff.

I hope these answers make you try eric again. If you have specific issues please let me know.

Regards,
Detlev

On Tuesday 25 November 2014, 22:57:52 Pietro Moras wrote:
> Hi Travis,   Presumably the best place for this kind of questions is the
> very Eric forum.See you there. - P.M. From: travisgriggs at gmail.comSubject:
> Re: Call for notes about Eric IDEDate: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:20:33 -0800To:
> studio-pm at hotmail.comOn Nov 25, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Pietro Moras
> <studio-pm at hotmail.com> wrote:In view of next edition of the Eric IDE
> Technical Report (forecast:  3rd quarter '15) we'll welcome your testimony
> of experiences and use of specific Eric IDE's features, such as:  – Special
> features of your choice, such as:  SQL Browser, Qt Forms Designer, Debug
> Remote Configurable, Eric APIs, PEP 8 Compliance Syntax and Tabnanny
> Checks, …  – Any other feature of your choice you deem as not adequately
> documented by the “Eric Tech. Reports” as currently available at URL: 
> http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric-documentation.html I’ve been
> growsing around lately for an alternate Python IDE. I like PyCharm, but I
> get tired of the Java shenanigans with it. So I decided to take the bait
> and try this one out. This were my “first five minutes” thoughts:1) I
> googled Eric IDE. It took me to your project page. I clicked downloads, but
> got no download link. Any reason not to actually link to the source forge
> downloads from that page?2) Glancing at features as I’m doing this, I see
> plugins for various SCMs, but not git? Maybe it’s included in the stock and
> doesn’t need a plugin? I hope so!3) This install is definitely “some
> assembly required” with the various dependencies. If I was in a TLDR mood,
> this probably would have killed me going forward.  On a Debian
> Jessie/Testing box, I find myself asking, do I have these various things
> installed? No clue really. 4) I couldn’t figure out which debian package to
> install to get an QtSql module (per the install.py’s feedback). I have
> debian packages that look like they should be that. I *am* curious why I
> need an SQL module in the first place for an IDE?5) I wish this was
> python3Switching to my OS X box…1) The PyQT module installation became
> sufficiently involved, I bailed.I’d really like to try this out, especially
> on Linux. But that’s my “noob” experience at this point.-- 
*Detlev Offenbach*
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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