[Bug 26177] supported developer meta-package

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

Public bug reported:

Currently we have (from Debian) gnome-devel which pulls in pretty much anything
anyone would need to do development in GNOME.  Unfortunately some of the
packages it pulls in are not in main or are redundant to packages in main.  I
think the easiest way to get a development environment is to run "sudo apt-get
build-dep $somepackage", not exactly ideal.

Some form of official ubuntu development package to pull in a supported
development environment would be fantastic.  This of course brings up some
larger questions that even the GNOME community itself struggles with (eg, which
IDE) and would require no small amount of work to integrate the tools that have
already been chosen (eg, making all docs  findable from the Yelp UI).

[my $0.02USD on tools would be Monodevelop and Monodoc... it would of course
require someone built AddOn's for MonoDevelop to support non-clr environments
like straight C, C++ and Python, and it would require a lot of work with
existing docs to get them into Monodoc... but I think Monodevelop has the most
potential to be a powerful tool for many different environments given its
extension architecture and the many languages that can be used to extend it]

** Affects: Ubuntu
     Importance: Wishlist
     Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
         Status: Unconfirmed

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supported developer meta-package
https://launchpad.net/bugs/26177