Symbolic Link creation

[abinkuruvilla]

Is Symbolic Link creation is mandatory? I created a sample plugin without linking. And i put the herbert skeleton in the wp-content folder of wordpress. Then what is the directory structure. I find following command for linking : ln -s /path/to/projects/plugin-name /path/to/sites/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name
Here what is structure for "/path/to/projects/plugin-name"
what is the structure for "/path/to/sites/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name".