[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[André Hartmann]

On 15.10.19 19:00, André Pönitz wrote:
> 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.

I've started to write some lines here:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/277700

Still WIP but feel free to add you comments and ideas.

> 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"

That is mostly for the developer ensuring the plugin still works as
expected, right?

André

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