A Python IDE designed in responce to the difficulties and disapointment experienced in existing options.
A Python IDE should be writen in Python and feel like Python. External dependencies generaly lead to slow-downs and bugs; a user should not need to make major changes to their environment to be able to use an application.
Code should be well designed before it is written to reduce bugs and poor usability. The "release early, release often" mindset of some opensource developement can get in the way or contradict the planning and design of good code. With proper planning, releasing often is still viable--we feel that it is better to discuss functionality than implementation.
Most IDEs look like Eclipse©; we think there are better options that need to be explored. Sometimes, trying to accomplish everything results in nothing.
Burmese.py is still in it's infancy, the first two releases were intended as a proof of concept--that a viable text editor could be written from the standard library with the regular external dependance on tk/tcl that is normal for Python. Design documents are being generated from the user requirements document and initial versions of burmese.py will be released in due time.