On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Dan Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is also nice to have just plugins and features rather than > eclipse\plugins and eclipse\features when you have different versions of > eclipse and change the directory to eclipse3.2 eclipse3.3 eclipse7.1 etc. The real solution to the issue is to use Eclipse's extension locations so you define a link file in links directory (beneath the Eclipse home directory) where you point out the directory with plugins to be included, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/apps/eclipse $ ls -l links/ total 9 -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 44 Feb 11 08:49 GEF.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 35 Mar 27 13:54 ajdt.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 45 Feb 11 08:53 dtp.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 54 Feb 11 08:49 emf-sdo-xsd.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 54 Mar 31 10:50 geronimo-eclipse-plugin.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 40 Feb 14 04:20 m2eclipse.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 53 Feb 23 23:32 openejb-eclipse-plugin.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 43 Feb 14 09:01 wicket-bench.link -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 42 Feb 14 09:01 wtp.link [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/apps/eclipse $ cat links/geronimo-eclipse-plugin.link path=C:/apps/eclipse-plugins/geronimo-eclipse-plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/apps/eclipse $ ls -l C:/apps/eclipse-plugins/geronimo-eclipse-plugin total 0 drwx------+ 4 jlaskowski None 0 Mar 31 10:17 eclipse [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/apps/eclipse $ ls -l C:/apps/eclipse-plugins/geronimo-eclipse-plugin/eclipse total 24 -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 19125 Oct 29 14:06 LICENSE -rwx------+ 1 jlaskowski None 3298 Oct 29 14:06 NOTICE drwx------+ 8 jlaskowski None 0 Mar 31 09:06 features drwx------+ 2 jlaskowski None 0 Mar 31 09:06 plugins No matter how hard you'd try updates are always very painful, but Extension Locations feature of Eclipse made it a breeze. Jacek -- Jacek Laskowski http://www.JacekLaskowski.pl
