[Qt-creator] Question about "kate/ktexteditor" highlighting implementation in QtCreator

[Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

>> After a first look it seems that the transition to the KSyntaxHighlighter should
>> be pretty straight forward, just some minor adjustments to the state handling.
>> So let's wait for any kind of licensing decision and we are good to go.
> 
> the relicensing is done in master of
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/syntax-highlighting.git/
> 
> The next released frameworks 5.50 will include this change, too.
> 
> The Code is now MIT, the syntax definition files are still licensed as before.
> 
> I introduced some defines/cmake switches to disable bundling of the files or
> lookup
> in QStandardPaths to easy bundling of the framework as e.g. static library in
> QtCreator
> or for others.
> 
> see
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/syntax-highlighting.git/commit/?id=59ddf56f98d95f2562da338cea935ea9bcbcb175
> https://cgit.kde.org/syntax-highlighting.git/commit/?id=ee0aa575255b98d8ba2eaf033e9e5228bcf12968
> 
> If there are any integration questions, API wishs, ..., please contact us ;=)

the initial 5.50 release with all library code under MIT is done.

https://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.50/

KTextEditor (aka KatePart) uses the framework now, too, as is.

Greetings
Christoph

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