> The problem is maven, which doesn't allow a profile to enable other ones. The solution for reducing the pain with this is creating a script, just like we do in the Scala IDE.
You can set shortcut variables for a union of profiles : http://stackoverflow.com/a/943474
> But, I agree we should do all we can for lowering the barrier for new contributors, so I'm ok with having a default. http://scala-ide.org/docs/dev/setup/setup.html should be updated accordingly.
That's in the pipeline.