[Qt-creator] Bundling external tools

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, I've collected some external tools, nothing special - just handy
> utilities for formatting.
>
> I'd like to re-distribute these for others to use, but at the moment
> users would need to install executable scripts in their $PATH.
>
> It would be nice if there was an identifier for the path used for external
> tools
>
> /home/ideasman42/.config/Nokia/qtcreator/externaltools/some_tool.sh
>
> ... would be nice to be able to use and identifier like...
>
> %{ApplicationConfig:Path}/externaltools/some_tool.sh
>
> This way you could just tell the user to extract an archive into the
> externaltools path and it would work immediately.
>
> Or is this already possible somehow?
>
> --
>
> incase anyones interested - the tools are...
> - run uncrustify on the selection
> - convert // comment blocks to /* */
> - expand non leading tabs into spaces & remove trailing whitespace.
> - use meld to diff the repo (nice for side-by-side diff's)
> - sort that takes file path slashes into account so deep paths are last.
> - right align trailing character, nice for formatting macros that use
> a lot of trailing '\' chars in some cases.
>
> - Campbell
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Vote for QTCREATORBUG-4995<https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-4995>
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- Orgad
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