From: Daniel Berger Date: 2007-01-26T00:25:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Free as in beer Komodo editor On Jan 25, 8:10 am, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: > The folks at ActiveState have "freed the dragon". They used to have two > versions of Komodo, a "personal edition" which was priced around $29 and > was only for non-commercial use and had fewer features, and the fully > featured version. With the release of Komodo 4.0, they decided to remove > the non-commercial restriction and make the "Komodo Editor" free. Here's > a feature comparison of what's in the two versions: > > Hi Chris- > > > > This is the sales page that highlights the major differences: > >http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/edit_vs_ide.plex > > > > Here's a comparison matrix: > > > > Feature/capability IDE Edit > > ---------------------------------- > > Editor * * > > Code intelligence * * > > Debugger * > > Interactive Shells * > > Project manager * * > > Toolbox * * > > HTTP Inspector * > > DOM Viewer * > > Rx Toolkit * > > Code Browser * > > SCC * > > PDK integration * > > So this is another entry in the "Ruby IDE" category. I still think I'm > going to go with KDevelop over Komodo because of its ability to handle > compiled languages and it's freedom, but I'm going to have a hard look > at the free Komodo editor at work, where I have quite a bit of Perl code > that I might want to port to Ruby. I like the Komodo editor, especially now that it has vi bindings. The debugger got me through several painful sessions of porting Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to Ruby. My main gripe is the goofball project management and "virtual" directories. I'd rather just have an Eclipse style setup, i.e. a base directory where all projects live, and your project's folders and files live on the filesystem under that base directory. Dan