Description Markus Schorn 2005-06-07 06:22:25 EDT

I use an installation of eclipse31-rc1 (c:/programs/eclipse31/eclipse)
a workspace containing a self written plugin (c:/dev/views/wb/vob/plugins/plg)
another installation of eclipse (c:/dev/views/wb/eclipse) which I use as my 
TargetPlatform.

When launching an eclipse application with my plugin, PDE creates the file
'platform.xml' in the 
folder '.metadata/org.eclipse.pde.core/launch/org.eclipse.update'. In there is 
the specification for the workspace plugins:
<site enabled="true" list="plugins/plg/" policy="USER-INCLUDE" 
updateable="true" url="file:../../../dev/views/wb/vob/">
</site>

Note that the url of the site is given relative to the site-url of eclipse 
hosting the launch. The eclipse application that is started tries to resolve 
this URL and makes it absolute by means of its site-url (which is the one of 
the target-platform), resulting in:
'c:/dev/dev/views/wb/vob/'

This directory does not exist, so my plugin does not get loaded :-(.