Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Are too many packages actually hurting Ec

[Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/07/2013 7:19 AM, Lars Vogel wrote:
> I agree to that, users already find the Eclipse IDE overloaded. If you 
> have only one download with everything, Eclipse will feel more 
> overloaded and bloated to users.
>
> Maybe http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ can show only the 5 most 
> popular distributions with a "MORE" button to show the other packages. 
> I think it used to be that way in the past, but I may be wrong here.

We just did a re-design of the download page for Kepler. The initial 
re-design was to have only 5 packages and then a MORE button. However, 
we got some pretty negative feedback, mostly from some package 
maintainers, that this would limit the visibility of their packages.