How to develop an Plone CMS application with an IDE? [closed]

Question

I am looking to adopt Plone as CMS solution and want to know is there any IDE available to do all the programming for Plone CMS?

Answer 1

Plone is written in Python and any Python IDE is good.

I personally used Aptana Studio 3 (Eclipse + PyDev) before moving to Sublime Text 2 one year ago.

Setting up Eclipse for Plone tutorial (old):

http://plone.org/documentation/kb/developing-plone-with-eclipse

Some sample integration scripts for Eclipse for Plone (no longer work with the latest Aptana as it doesn't ship with MonkeyEclipse):

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.eclipsescripts

How to tune Sublime Text 2 for Plone and Python

http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/05/11/sublime-text-2-tips-for-python-and-web-developers/

Here are the pros and cons why I moved from Aptana to Sublime Text 2

Aptana + PyDev

• Integrated Git and SVN explorer

• You can click tracebaxk in a console window and it will take you to the line in that exception

• Autocompletion

• Linter warns on the background about bad code

• Hard to integrate with other Python tools (buildout, eggs). In fact you spend more time fighting with IDE than running the commands directly from the command line.

• In dynamic languages like Python you cannot apply most of Eclipse's powerful code analysis and refactoring features which are desgined Java in mind.

Sublime Text 2

• Faaast. In fact has 3D acceleration.

• Quick go to anywhere (CMD+T) is the best what any IDE or editor can provide. Makes your working and navigating source really efficient.

• Autocompletion (SublimeCodeIntel, works in fact better than in Eclipse)

• Linter warns on the background about bad code

• PEP-8 style guide check

• Needs some time to set-up and get confortable with

• Kind of integrated SVN and Git, but does not come even close the level of Eclipse

• Still haven't figured out how to run Plone process in a window to make tracebacks clickable

Answer 2

You don't need an IDE to be a plone-developer but an good editor or a IDE might help your productivity depending on your style of coding.

Some options for good editors and IDE's are:

• sublime text (commercial, see http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/05/11/sublime-text-2-tips-for-python-and-web-developers for some tips on how to setup sublime for plone-development. If setup smartly it is a true IDE)
• textmate (mac only, open source since version 2)
• vim
• emacs
• Aptana Studio (open source, a eclipse-spinnoff which includes pydev)
• Eclipse (open source, you might want pydev and other addons)
• Wing IDE (commercial)
• ploneide (a IDE running on top of Plone, still work in progress)

I now use sublime after having used Eclipse/Apatana Studio for a long time.