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ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the somebody-somewhere-freaks-out dept.

Noiser writes "ActiveState discontinues VisualPerl and VisualPython for Windows. Demand doesn't justify further development, they say. No, they don't mean to open-source these products, due to licensing problems with the inseparable MS Visual Studio integration code. Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..."

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  1. Re:They what? Oh.... by adisakp · · Score: 1, Redundant

    For a second there, I thought they were discontinuing ActivePerl and almost got angry.

    FWIW, there is a perl package in cygwin. If ActivePerl went away, you'd still be able to run perl scripts under windows with a free (as in beer) tool. The cygwin stuff is also "Free" (as in speech) as well.

  2. Re:Visual-Studio is a great IDE, Visual-Python = g by Coryoth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Visual-Python is a simple, easy and comfortable way to develop python while working on a Windows machine.
    It blends in nicely with Visual-Studio and provides all those little things that make writing code nicer easier and sleaker.

    Well there's always PyDev for Eclipse. It's reasonably mature, takes full advantage of what Eclipse has to offer (integration, debugging, code completion etc.) as well as having nice integration of other tools such as bicycle repair man for refactoring and pylint for static checking.

    Jedidiah.

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