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I wonder if the name "Eclipse IDE for Linux Developers" is too broad. Will people be annoyed that there aren't, say, python tools? I'm really not sure and would appreciate some other people's comments.
Yepp, I would agree that this name is a better description of the package content. As far as I can remember there has never been a final decision about the package name and at the time when I created the package definition I just took something... So, for now I changed the name to "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Linux Developers", but I can revert that change any time. But speaking of a descriptive name: I think we should add a better detailed description that is shown on the webpages and in the feature. At the moment we only have "An IDE for Linux developers with Mylyn integration. Note that the LinuxTools package includes some incubating components, as indicated by feature numbers less than 1.0.0 on the feature list." It would be better to describe the value-add, i.e. that the package comes with Valgrind Tools, Linux Tracing Toolkit, etc. integration.
How about: "This package augments the C/C++ package specifically for Linux developers. It includes GNU Autotools integration with the CDT and plugins to interact with with native Linux tools such as GCov, GProf, OProfile, and Valgrind. Visualization and analysis plugins for Linux tracing tools LTTng and SystemTap are also present. For Linux distribution packages, an RPM .spec editor with rpmlint integration is available. Note that the Linux Tools package includes some incubating components, as indicated by features with the '(Incubation)' suffix in the feature list." ?
Much better ;-) I've updated the description in CVS (won't be available before RC4).
I see this is fixed now. Thanks, Markus.
