[Qt-creator] Creating Tarballs

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi,
one task that is quite tiresome and requires work by hand when developing 
small projects is the creation of tarballs.
I was thinking about how to facilitate this task and one way would be to 
take advantage of IDEs such as Creator.
Since it already integrates with SCM and the sources, why not use it to 
(half) automatically create tarballs.
I'd love to hear some input on how feasible this would be and where to 
start.
My current idea would be to write a plugin, that tries to checkout sources 
cleanly from the version control used,
or tries to grab the available sources and then gives the user the option to 
add/remove additional files.
Once this is done, the result can be compressed.

Cheers
Frederik