[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[Jason H]

I'd argue that there should be a plugin screen in QtC, like there is in OctoPi, Cura, Chrome, Firefox, npm, Qpm, etc., where the user can browse & download plugins (or in Qt's case probably build)

> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 2:03 AM
> From: "Richard Weickelt" <richard at weickelt.de>
> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin
>
> 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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