[Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin

[Eike Ziller]

FYI
the SerialTerminal plugin is now part of the binary snapshots.

Br, Eike

> On 14. Oct 2019, at 20:50, André Hartmann <aha_1980 at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> > How would I go about finding and installing this plug in? I looked in
> Preferences, nothing there, tried About Plugins.. doesn't seem to have
> an on-line repository search & install feature?
> 
> That's the reason I wrote the mail. The plugin is integrated into
> Creators source repository [1], but not build with the official packages.
> 
> You have two options for now:
> 
> 1. Build Creator yourself
> 2. Find someone the builds Creator for you (e.g. a Linux distri)
> 
> Best regards,
> André
> 
> [1]
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/plugins/serialterminal
> 
> 
> On 14.10.19 15:35, Jason H wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 2:59 PM
>>> From: "André Hartmann" <aha_1980 at gmx.de>
>>> To: qt-creator <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
>>> Subject: [Qt-creator] Deployment of SerialTerminal plugin
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> O_o
>> 
>> Without knowing anything about this, it would probably be a help since I talk to 3D printers (Arduinos) and other serial things quite often.
>> 
>> It would also be very cool if it could simulate a serial device so I could mimic real hardware.
>> 
>> How would I go about finding and installing this plug in? I looked in Preferences, nothing there, tried About Plugins.. doesn't seem to have an on-line repository search & install feature?
>> 
>> 
> 
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