[news.eclipse.newcomer] 'links' directory and plugin locations

[d4@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ulrich Scholz)]

Dear all,

in another question I got the advise to install a new version of eclipse 
(R3.2). I also was told to use the 'links' directory as mechanism to use 
my old plugins without need to reinsall or copy them by hand.

> To install the release simply download Eclipse SDK R3.2 and unzip it into an 
> empty directory. Then either add the plug-ins that you added to your old 
> installation or (better) keep them in a separate location and use the 
'links' 
> directory to point to them (check doc for details).

Now I did as advised (at least I think I did) but my old plugins are not 
found by the new eclipse version.  Could you point me to the relevant 
documentation of that feature, I somehow could not find it.

Thank you,

Ulrich


My configuration:

the old eclipse version has the path:
/home/scholzuh/Tools/eclipse-sdk_3.2M3

the new version:
/home/scholzuh/Tools/eclipse-SDK-3.2-linux-gtk


my directory /home/scholzuh/Tools/eclipse-SDK-3.2-linux-gtk/links looks 
like this:

-rw-r--r--  1 scholzuh pmem 44 2006-08-03 10:25 eclipse-sdk_3.2M3.link

The file eclipse-sdk_3.2M3.link contains the single line

path=/home/scholzuh/Tools/eclipse-sdk_3.2M3