[Qt-creator] Dev: Qt Creator 4.8 feature freeze is approaching

[Jason H]

I went to look online for what will be in Qt Creator 4.8, and didn't find anything. Well I did, but I saw a lot of old Qt 4.8 proper stuff. I'm wondering if versioning QtCreator to be the same as the Qt version it is built with is becoming a good idea? Qt 4.8 is still going strong in some communities. This does complicate versioning a little, as a release of Creator might come before (or after) a release of Qt. But they do seem to coincide quite often. ANd since Qt is built with the latest Qt, isn't it a 5.x anyway? 

Just a thought.

Anyway, what's on the way for 4.8? 
My own desires are:
 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20941 - Device status indicator (please?)
Nice to have: 
 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-21022 - Standardize Qt Kit Names (for Qt Creator?) (got a lot of interest on 'interest' ml)
 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20445 - Process status icons on output panes

And for the love of whatever your favorite deity is, please stop injecting two " when there is a non-whitespace character to the right of where the quote will be. 'this|d' should not ever become 'this""d'! It is not helpful. Then when you backspace to get rid of ONE of the two, it gets rid of BOTH so you're back where you started. No other editor in existence behaves this way. I've lived with this for a decade now and it still trips me up! https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20045 

> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 2:58 AM
> From: "Eike Ziller" <Eike.Ziller at qt.io>
> To: qt-creator <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
> Subject: [Qt-creator] Dev: Qt Creator 4.8 feature freeze is approaching
>
> Qt Creator 4.8 feature freeze is approaching!
> 
> I have created the 4.8 branch(es). Please start targeting the 4.8 branch now. The master branch will still be merged regularly into 4.8, until feature freeze goes into effect next week (last merge around EOB September 25th 2018).
> You can even retarget existing changes on codereview (only the change owner): Just add a comment "bot: move to 4.8”
> (See http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2018-January/031822.html)
> 
> Br, Eike
> 
> https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Creator_Releases
> 
> Qt Creator 4.8
> 
> * Feature freeze wk39 (~ Sep 25 2018)
> * Beta release wk41 (~ Oct 9 2018)
> * String freeze wk43 (~ Oct 23 2018)
> * Release candidate wk45 (~ Nov 6 2018)
> * Final release wk47 (~ Nov 20 2018)