Yes, I use this function as well and it simplifies management of my various
Eclipse plugins much simpler.....
Jacek Laskowski wrote:
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
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Thanks,
Tim McConnell
