[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

Richard Weickelt richard at weickelt.de
Tue Oct 15 09:03:40 CEST 2019


Hi,

> the Serial Terminal plugin was added to Qt Creator in spring 2018. It
> still has the experimental state, but I think the biggest problem is
> that it is not included in the official Qt Creator builds. A lot of
> potential users might not even know it exists.
> 
> Given the ongoing support for microcontrollers in Qt Creator, I think it
> would be a good opportunity to deliver this plugin with Creator. It's
> only dependency seems to be QSerialPort, which is a relatively
> lightweight module and therefore should not hurt much.

it would be useful. I guess the percentage of users creating QtCreator from
source is close to 0. What is needed to get the Serial Terminal plugin out
of the "experimental" state?


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