[cdt-dev] A simple install process for Eclipse

[Omer Strulovich <omers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

We've been using CDT as the environment we recommend for our CS courses in my department. Since our students are fresh into this field and can barely tell a compiler from an IDE at this point we need a simple as possible process for letting them install a working IDE on their computers.

We're currently simply providing them a link to download CDT 7.0 where a MinGW folder exists under the eclipse folder. This used to work seamlessly and allowed student to simply unzip a file and start working without troubling them with information that will only be relevant later.

Unfortunately, it seems this trick is not working with CDT 8.0, it would no longer try to look for mingw under the eclipse folder and this makes distributing a simple eclipse install way harder.

Anyone got some recommendation on fixing this issue so we can move the students to 8.0?

Thanks

-Omer