[PyKDE] Re: Getpass problems with Eric3

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 6:32 pm, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2004 18:28 schrieb Douglas:
> > Hi Detlev !
> >
> > > thanks for your help.
> >
> > Count on me ! I wish to help make eric3 the better python ide.
> >
> > Ah... Why the name of the editor is eric3 ??
>
> When I took over I found a (dead) graphical debugger called eric. Maybe
> Phil Thompson can explain this name. I made some patches to get it work
> with Qt 3 and added some enhancements. At that time Phil transfered all
> further development to me and with the (big) change from a graphical
> debugger to a Python IDE I called it eric3 (short for Eric Version 3).

eric was called eric because idle was called idle.

All together now...

Always look on the bright side of life, ta da, ta da, ta da, ta da.

Phil