Appcelerator, Aptana & Pydev

Well, as publicized already, Aptana was acquired by Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/appcelerator-acquires-aptana/).

So, I thought I'd write a bit about it...

First thing to note is that (as the rest of the team) I've joined Appcelerator, and the plan is to keep Pydev going forward (as it has been going since I had joined Aptana). However, unlike the rest of the team, I'm still based on Brazil :)

I think that the only difference in focus is that now, aside from the support for Django and Google App Engine, Titanium (which is Appcelerator's platform for developing desktop and mobile applications) will also have some special attention, although I still don't have more details on what exactly this means...

All in all, I think this was a good thing, as one of the things that Aptana was looking for was something to support (as the plans were always about giving Aptana Studio for free and making money on something else), and Appcelerator will have a nice improvement in terms of a better coding environment :)

Pydev Subversion @ Aptana

I think it's already widely publicized that Pydev is now a part of Aptana, and the last release is starting to mark that integration: the source is now available at the subversion hosted by Aptana.

The basic info to get it is:

• repo: https://source.aptana.com/pydev_repo/
• user: anonymous
• password: aptana

There are detailed instruction on how to get/build it at: http://pydev.sourceforge.net/developers.html

Enjoy!