[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:06:36PM +0200, André Hartmann wrote:
> 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.

Looks like a good start.
 
> > 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?

Yes.

Andre'
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