[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:03:40AM +0200, Richard Weickelt wrote:
> 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?

Some description of what it does and how, a.k.a. "Basic documentation"
would be nice.

For bonus points, something that resembles a test. Even a purely manual
one in the form of "Open X;  Click Y; Type Z  - Expected result: ABC"

Andre'