[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Import a Plug-in Project wipes out my plugin

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Put the plugin into your workspace's TARGET Eclipse, and then import 
from there as binary with linked content instead.

Chris wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have been using ECLIPSE now for almost 2 years and still have not 
> figured out how to do this.  Our company has a bunch of plug-ins that 
> make up our app.  We have a complete ant-build system that can build the 
> plugins outside of ECLIPSE.  All I want to do is load the plugins "AS 
> IS" using our MANIFEST.inf and plugin.xml files and use the ECLIPSE dev 
> environment without compiling any files within ECLIPSE.
>
> When I load in a plugin now as a Plug-in Project, I go through the 
> wizard by filling out the first page and then unchecking the two check 
> boxes in the Plug-in Options box in the second page.  ECLISPE then 
> proceeds to load my plugin project but then deletes my plugin.xml and 
> then overwrites my MANIFEST.inf.  Bummer.  I have tried to import the 
> plugin, but that has too many options for me and seems to complicated.
>
> I am using ECLIPSE 3.2.
>
> Any ideas?

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp