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' _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator