eric is a free integrated development environment (IDE) used for computer programming.

Since it is a full featured IDE, it provides by default all necessary tools needed for the writing of code and for the professional management of a software project.

[3] Additionally, the author offers access to the source code via a public Mercurial repository.

[5] By design, eric acts as a front end for several programs, for example the QScintilla editor widget.

The first sequence represents the major version number which is increased when there are significant jumps in functionality, the second sequence represents the minor number, which is incremented when only some features or significant fixes have been added, and the third sequence is the revision number, which is incremented when minor bugs are fixed or minor features have been added.