Bug 182103 - Need for "System" path variables
Summary: Need for "System" path variables
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122945
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Resources (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2007-04-12 05:46 EDT by Arnaud Lucien CLA
Modified: 2007-04-12 15:25 EDT (History)
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Description Arnaud Lucien CLA 2007-04-12 05:46:44 EDT 
Build ID: M20060921-0945

Steps To Reproduce:
I am in the following situation:
in a given project I need to create linked resources pointing on other projects. Of course I want to avoid to define the linked resources using their absolute path, because then my .project file would contain PC-dependent paths. So I've defined several path variables, every one of them pointing on a project.
However, this approach is cumbersome because I need to constantly update the path variables when a project is added / deleted / renamed.
Therefore, I think it would be great to have "system" path variables pointing on locations like projects, workspace, etc... For instance we could think of reusing the Eclipse variables (${workspace_loc}, ${project_loc}, ...) for the path variables.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2007-04-12 15:25:11 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 122945 ***