[Qt-creator] test discovery

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 09:58:33AM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
> On 2021-01-05 9:53 a.m., André Pönitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:39:53AM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > 
> > > As this is a plugin, is there any way to "backport" it to work with
> > > older qt-creator versions ?
> > I am fairly sure this will not be backported centrally, so you would
> > have to try yourself. At that time you'll usually have a self-build
> > Creator as well, which in turn means backporting would have no real
> > benefits over using a self-build Creator from master branch directly.
> 
> Can't I just compile the plugin (using some public qt-creator Plugin API) ?
> Sorry if I'm displaying my ignorance here, but I assumed that qt-creator
> supporting "plugins" implied that those plugins could be managed (including
> built) independently from qt-creator.

You can build plugins separately. But you'll need headers from Qt Creator sources
anyway for that. From there it isn't far to a self-compiled Qt Creator.

Andre'