Since ubuntu is pushing python, a good python IDE should be available

[Eric Feliksik]

Fábio Mendes wrote:
> Em Sex, 2004-11-05 às 08:56 -0800, Matt Zimmerman escreveu:
> 
>>On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:41:41PM +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Since ubuntu is pushing python, a good python IDE should be available. I
>>>was thinking eclipse 3.x with pydev. Or if anyone knows a better one
>>>tell me :) 
>>
>>Python integration for Eclipse sounds nice; is this something you would be
>>interested in working on?
>>
>>-- 
>> - mdz
> 
> 
> The hard part here would be convince sun that we can distribute the Java machine. Packing a eclipse plugin is easy since all is needed is copy the right files to eclipse dir.
> Has anyone at Canonical tried to contact them regarding this issue
> (maybe an open letter to sun)? We don't need source level access to the
> java machine (although it would fit the project ideals nicely :-), but
> it would definitivaly be a plus if it was possible to ship java in a
> default ubuntu installation.
> 
> Fabio
> 

Initially I read that Ubuntu would only ship non-free software when 
necessary to make hardware work, like binary drivers. Does this mean 
there can be relaxations for this policy if Sun allows Ubuntu to ship java?

Regards,

Eric