[Qt-creator] Qt Creator Community

[Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos]

On Friday 05 March 2010 12:10:41 Peter Kümmel wrote:
> As Qt Creater beeing 'only' a plugin-collection,
> is there a overview where all Nokia and 3rd-party
> plugins are listet and described?

Not that I know. I know only 3 3rd party plugins:
I know at least 3 3rd party plugins:
 * CppSupport, plugin for C++ Class View, from visual fc:
http://code.google.com/p/visualfc/downloads/list
 * Doxygen, add doxygen tags, from kofee:
http://dev.kofee.org/QtCreator-Doxygen/
 * CppHelper (add create definition action) and Macro (create/save/execute 
macros), from me:
http://gitorious.org/creator-plugins

That would be nice to have them somewhere.

 
> Also, is there a wiki which could be used as entry point
> for starting developing plugins, with documentations,
> example plugins, links to other howtos, and so on?

Not that I know, you already have some documentation in the code you can 
generate (doxygen, maybe qdoc3).
There's an excellent document written by Prashanth:
http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/44069.html
It gives you all you the information you need to start your own plugin. Also I 
had some troubles to create a plugin that build outside the qt creator src 
directory, you can get mine and copy whatever you need.


> When the intension of Qt Creator is to also create a
> community around the creater like there is around Eclipse
> then Nokia should spend some resources to evangelize
> and support such a community.

I would love too, but don't forget that Qt Creator is young (a little more 
than one year now). For the moment, they are trying to make it awesome for Qt 
development, and working hard on the Qt Quick integration and also 
maemo/symbian/whatever new plateform needed by Nokia.
At least that's what I'm understanding from an outside pov.

But maybe it's at the community to create something, and not the other way 
around. I don't usually go visit Qt Centre, but they already have a wiki and a 
sub-forum for Qt tools (including Qt Creator).
At Qtfr.org, we already have a sub-forum specific to Qt Creator.

As a plugin developer, I would also love to see a "plugin builder" tools for 
Qt SDK. It's hard to create binaries for our plugins for a specific SDK (I 
don't have mac, I don't use any SDK, and on Windows you need VS2008 I think).

Hope they'll have some time after Qt 4.7 to work on the community building ;)

Cheers,
Nicolas

> (No, the gitorious wiki is not enough.)
> 
> Peter
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