[Eric] Request for proposal

[Stjujsckij Nickolaj]

  Hello maillist and Detlev.

Personally I don't see much need in porting to Python3 right now — Py3k  
hasn't hit major distros yet (at least stable ones), vast majority of  
Python code is still written in 2.x branch and so on. Full support for  
Py3k (debuugging etc) would be nice, but I suggest it's not that easy for  
app written in 2.x.

  I vote for Git/Mercurial plugin, whichever you feel more needed — Git is  
more widespread, Mercurial is written in Python (and I like it more). I'd  
wanted to help with it (it's a little bit confusing to write everything  
myself, but I'd wanted to learn).

Another suggestion is to improve autocompletion — it's a little bit too  
complicated in using, in my opinion, what with all those APIs for  
project/system/etc. If you want, I can write down my ideas etc.

And more question, than suggestion — could Eric use system Pygments  
installation? Wouldn't it be more convenient and logical? And those who is  
happy with QScintilla lexers might spare few Kb of HDD-space (-:E

  And thank you for great tool!

> Hi,
>
> I would like to plan the next steps for eric4 development and would like  
> to ask the community. Here are the choices.
>
> 1. Port eric4 to Python3 (resulting in eric5; that may take some time)
> 2. Create a Mercurila VCS plugin (could be done by a volunteer as well)
> 3. Create a GIT VCS plugin (could be done by a volunteer as well)
> 4. Give a suggestion
>
> My vote goes to option 1.
>
> Regards,
> Detlev