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-
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.
–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/
If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.
Robert D. wrote:
So this is another entry in the “Ruby IDE” category.
No Sir, not my choice.
I would happily have accepted a closed license (as in free beer;) as
long as
I do not have to stop drinking beer upon written notice and send a bug
report to the brewing company whenever my beer was not good!
Komodo Editor is still in beta. That’s a standard sort of beta test
license – “if you like it, tell your friends, if you don’t like it,
tell us!” 
My day job forbids us to do beta tests on company equipment, so I can’t
actually use it at work until it’s formally released. At that point, I
need to clear the real license with the powers that be. I sort of beta
tested the Komodo 4 at home on Linux – I verified that it would install
on Gentoo, which was about all I had time to do before it went into
general release.
–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/
If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.
On 1/25/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected] 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:
*
So this is another entry in the “Ruby IDE” category.
If I correctly interpret the license it not really is 
http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/beta_agreement.plex
I find that license unacceptable (unless I misunderstand)
- After 6 month, or upon written notification or upon a commercial
release I
have to discontinue usage.
- I have to provide test feedback.
No Sir, not my choice.
I would happily have accepted a closed license (as in free beer;) as
long as
I do not have to stop drinking beer upon written notice and send a bug
report to the brewing company whenever my beer was not good!
I still think I’m
going to go with KDevelop over Komodo
seems a very good decision to me
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.
–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/
If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.
Robert