Re: komodo, opinions?

["Sean O'Leary" <soleary@erols.com>]

At 12:30 PM 01/05/2001, Gleeson, Francis (HT-EX) wrote:

> The komodo windows beta is out. I was experimenting with it looks promising.
> It also seems *very* sluggish on my Pentium II 300.
>
> Has anyone else gotten a chance to evaluate komodo? On Linux it is still tech
> preview 3 which seemed unusable to me.

I've used a very little bit on WinNT 4.0 (SP6) using ActivePerl 5.6.0 - 
Build 623.  It's a bit slow at times, and kinda buggy (sometimes it would 
coredump on what I would think would be pretty simple operations, like 
running to a breakpoint and stuff.)  You might want to make sure you are 
running the latest build of ActivePython, as I think much of the interface 
stuff is done there.

It's still beta, so I wouldn't expect great things from it yet.  However, 
for most of the scripts that I write (usually simple ones), I have found it 
to be sufficiently capable.  The thing I am waiting for, however, is the 
regular expression debugger.  That's going to provide some neat windows 
into how the regex engine works and be a really valuable tool for most of 
us.  At least those of us still trying to learn the full depth and breadth 
of regexes.

Oh, the other cool thing about Komodo, that hasn't been implemented yet, 
will be the JavaScript debugging. I really hate having to refine stuff 
inside of Internet Explorer.

Thank you for your time,

Sean.

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