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PyDev Status (1.1.0)

In the past few weeks I spent some time preparing patches that backport PyDev (the Eclipse Python plugin) from Java 1.5 to 1.4 so that it can be shipped in Fedora, since for some time now PyDev has been developed on Java 1.5. Last week I updated my patches to PyDev 1.1.0, which is the latest version that will support Eclipse 3.1.2, and so the latest version that can go into FC5. Last week version 1.2.0 was also released, which is the first version that will be targeted for Eclipse 3.2, which is what will get into FC6.

I spent some time last week trying to make PyDev has sane defaults out of the box for settings like the path of the Python and Jython interpreters, I got something sort of working, but it wasn’t quite there yet. I’m planning to push PyDev into Fedora Extras in FC6, since it will now have an optional dependency on Jython. But I’m wondering whether I should release 1.1.0 as a Core 5 update, because it really is a *huge* update in stability and functionality over the version we currently we have in. I’ll probably try to make a test RPM that has the Jython bits ripped out tomorrow and push it into updates-testing, and see what kind of reaction I get.

Over the weekend or maybe next week I’ll probably prepare the PyDev 1.2.0 patch and a corresponding SRPM, that I’ll submit to extras pending on my other submissions (Jython and friends).

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6 Responses to “PyDev Status (1.1.0)”

  1. krz says:
    July 5, 2006 at 11:37 am

    Hi Igor,
    Thanks for your work on eclipse in fedora. I’d like to know what’s the current status of eclipse-pydev 1.x in fedora? I’m very interested in this update as I’m having a bunch of problems with the 0.9.3… Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any rpms in fedora repositories.

    Thanks,
    krz

  2. igor says:
    July 5, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Hi krz,

    I agree, the 0.9.3 version we have currently sucks big time. :)
    The only thing standing in the way of 1.1.0 right now is Jython. This version of PyDev has been supporting Jython for a while, and since we don’t have Jython in Fedora, I don’t want to just dump it in, since a part of it will be utterly broken. I’m currently in the process of getting Jython into Extras, at which point I will put the newest version of PyDev in extras as well. If you’re interested I’ll make a (S)RPM for 1.1.0 for FC5 that you could download and use for now.

    Igor

  3. gened says:
    July 7, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Hello Igor,
    I have been using your eclipse-pydev-1.0.6_fc-1 rpm on fc5, for a few days, no problems so far.
    thanks alot.

  4. krz says:
    July 9, 2006 at 5:00 am

    Hi Igor,
    Yes, if you could provide the 1.1.10, it would be nice — till then I’ll use the 1.0.6.rpm (I couldn’t find it until I read the previous comment and googled the filename!). It’s already a huge improvement over what I had.
    Once more — thanks for your work!
    krz

  5. Paul W. Frields says:
    December 6, 2006 at 9:50 am

    Hi Igor,
    Any news on the PyDev packages for FC6? I am starting to get into writing some tools for use at work (an offline system), and it would be great if my manually-sync’d Extras mirror had this package in it… ;-)

  6. Thomas says:
    January 6, 2007 at 9:05 am

    I second a request for pydev for fc6… been hoping for a while now to give eclipse a try for my python work.

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