[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Use of the eclipse\links folder?

[Cagatay Kavukcuoglu <cagatayk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Whiteman wrote:
> One usage of this folder is to make it easier to move to a new version 
> of Eclipse.  You could keep your plugins in a folder outside your 
> Eclipse install directory (much like the recommended approach for 
> workspaces), and then when you install a more recent build, you just 
> copy the links folder over to the new one.  Otherwise it is difficult to 
> remember which plugins and features you have installed and to copy them 
> over correctly to the new install.
>
> David

I used to do this but it does have a problem I couldn't work around: How 
do you convince Update Manager to use the linked site for new feature 
installations? In other words, I want the linked site to show up in the 
list of sites when installing a new feature.

Right now, I use the "-configuration <URL-to-platform.cfg>" command-line 
parameter. This way, I can have multiple workspaces and a global 
platform configuration independent of a particular workspace (by 
default, platform.cfg is stored under the .metadata of a workspace).