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Re: Perl Development Environment - Revisited

by Herkum (Parson)
on Mar 13, 2007 at 17:27 UTC ( [id://604620]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl Development Environment - Revisited

I have been using Komodo . I did not purchase the most recent version which was 4.0. The $300 price tag is a bit much for me to consider upgrading.

Komodo has some neat project stuff associated with it, but I am finding that file system tools that do a better job of dealing with certain issues than relying on the built-in editor.

An example with Komodo was accessing remote files via FTP, the functionality was there but very flaky, the network I was working on would temporarily lose the connection all the time and then I would have to restart the editor to be able to access the file again.

I have another server which did not have FTP, only SSH and Komodo did not support accessing files via SSH. Luckily someone pointed out sshfs. I mapped a virtual directory to my remote system via SSH. I did not need wait for Komodo to get that extra 'enhancement' in order to work.

Another thing about the Perl community is that we are a fairly cheap bunch. I may not speak for everyone but there are not a lot of development tools directly geared towards Perl, but in general, the are expensive. My co-worker shelled out $60 for RegEx Buddy, I thought, 'That is a lot of money just to do one thing'. I think Komodo costs a lot at $300 and I LIKE that editor.

Another point I would like to make is that alot of programmers that get proficient at VIM can be pretty flexible. VIM is installed on most every *NIX system. It would seem strange to purchase a proprietary tool that is tied to one box when you may need to work on several different systems.

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Re^2: Perl Development Environment - Revisited
by mercutio_viz (Scribe) on Mar 13, 2007 at 19:51 UTC

    Komodo costs a lot at $300 and I LIKE that editor.

    Komodo IDE 4.0 is $295. ActivePerl Pro Studio, which includes Komodo IDE 4.0, is $495 plus $245/year.

    I've tried them both (free 30-day trial) and I was impressed with some of the features. My beef, of course, is paying any substantial amount of money for a piece of software when there's so much OSS out there, not that all OSS is necessarily good software. For the time-being I've settled on Eclipse - EasyEclipse LAMP specifically - for reasons which I'll enumerate in a separate post.

    -MC

Re^2: Perl Development Environment - Revisited
by Burak (Chaplain) on Mar 13, 2007 at 18:14 UTC
    FYI: There is now a "free" version named "Komodo Edit"

      Komodo edit is not an IDE, it is an editor. There are plenty of editors in the market, free and otherwise. There are not so many good Perl IDEs. See Re^3: IDE for perl in the IDE thread referenced above for a preview of this discussion. ;)


      DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
Re^2: Perl Development Environment - Revisited
by tubaandy (Deacon) on Mar 15, 2007 at 16:09 UTC
    I use vim on Windows, which is very nice for scripting (as I'm used to it). And it's free. :)

    tubaandy

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