while the IDE is not totally necessary, I want to include it for convenience. I don't want people to have to go out and grab a bunch of different stuff, and then spend days configuring it. most of the configuration settings that people will be interested in are stored in the workspace, at least I think. it always seems like this kind of stuff should just easily port over to a new version, but from my experience it almost never does for some reason or another.I think it's just better to give people something that they already know can be up and running almost instantly rather than investing a bunch of time setting up things when they don't even know if they want to use them yet.
written from my phone, please excuse any horribleness that may be in the above paragraph.