[Qt-creator] GSoC 2018: New feature proposal for Qt Creator

[André Hartmann]

Hi Gowtham,

your proposal sounds indeed interesting. And we have the task 
QTCREATORBUG-16246, which almost looks like your suggestion.

So there *is* interest in this topic :)

I've just two comments to the implementation:

* Would it be enough to have the files on a network share instead of 
rsync'ing them?
* Is it really needed to have Clang running on the remote machine? Would 
it be enough to have access to the included headers on remote?

Best regards,
André

[1] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-16246

Am 10.03.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Sree Gowtham Josyula:
> Hello All,
> 
> This mail was initially posted in the Qt  Development mailing list
> <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2018-March/032301.html>,
> but I am reposting here, with minor edits, as the audience here are
> more appropriate.
> 
> I am a Masters Student in Computer Engineering Program at Arizona
> State University. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of
> Code(GSoC) 2018 with Qt as my mentor organization. Link -
> https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/02/22/google-summer-of-code-2018/
> 
> In this mail, I would like to propose a new feature for Qt Creator as
> my GSoC project, based on my experience at my previous company.
> 
> Issue faced in previous company -  In my previous company, we had our
> development environment in Windows and target platform as arm-linux
> machine. For that, we would develop code on Windows systems and then
> sync the project/workspace to the remote linux server and then compile
> with the cross-compilation tool-chain there and then deploy on the
> target machine elsewhere.
> 
> In the above setup  we faced the following problems -
> 1. Unavailability of code completion frameworks on the development
> machine as not all the platform headers were available locally
> 2. Frequently syncing the workspace was a wasteful of time
> 
> In order to solve the above problem, I would like to propose a "Remote
> System Development Plug-in" for editing, compiling, executing &
> debugging files on a remote system on the lines on Emacs Tramp package
> (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode).
> 
> High Level Features -
> 
> 1. Public key registration of development machine on remote machine
> (and vice-versa) for seamless syncing of files between the two
> machines
> 2. Setting up a toolkit (Compiler, Debugger, Qt Tool-chain, cmake,
> qmake, qbs, sysroot) of a remote machine on the Development machine's
> Qt Creator IDE
> 3. Opening projects of remote machine in development machine (using
> the same interface used for opening project on development machine)
> 4. Automatic syncing of workspace between development machine and
> remote machine(on every save & periodically) - could be done using
> rsync
> 5. Compilation of code on the remote machine with the tool-chain setup there
> 6. Execution & debugging code on Remote machine
> 7. Supporting Clang based code completion, got-definition &
> refactoring - Might need to run a clang-daemon/Language Server on the
> remote machine and send the responses to development machine.
> 
> Kindly let me know your thoughts about my above idea.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Gowtham
> (Sree Gowtham Josyula)
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