[Qt-creator] plugin_qtestlib

[Eike Ziller]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:24 PM, ext Bravo.Alex wrote:

> Why is it dead:
> a)      it’s obsolete, we now have a new XYZ plugin supporting  
> QTestLib in Qt Creator
> b)      the author is working on something else and doesn’t have  
> time/interest to work on it
> c)       it didn’t do much, so it’s not worth maintaining
> d)      nobody needs it, we are satisfied with running tests through  
> test.pl

I suppose it's b) and c). Plus that it's not so high in the list of  
things to do.
The only "maybe" still useful parts of the code in the plugin is  
probably the interaction/parsing of the QTestLib output.

++ Eike

>  Alex
>
> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 17:47:42 ext Bravo.Alex wrote:
> > I'm not very successful in finding any info about plugin_qtestlib.
> > There's not many comments in the source code either.
> >
> > plugins.pro says this:
> > plugin_qtestlib \ # this seems to be dead
> >
> > The source tree on gitorious.org is missing  
> QTestLibPlugin.pluginspec for
> >  it.
> >
> > Does anybody know what it was supposed to do?
> It's dead and the code probably is not very useful anymore either.
>
> daniel
>
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