Honestly I don't know if I want to set the precedent of allowing
plugins to just arbitrarily add new tabs there.

I think Build Issues would be a valid output target, though; it's
already intended for jumping to the relevant places in the code and
one could argue that failing a unit test is a build issue.

/s/ Adam

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Robert Caldecott
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I like the idea of a dedicated QTest output pane - will you be able to 
> double-click on failures to jump directly to the code?  That would be 
> brilliant.
>
> 2009/10/26 Bravo.Alex <[email protected]>
>>
>> > Plus that it's not so high in the list of things to do.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are talking about qtcrea...@nokia team, it makes a lot of sense.
>>
>> But that's why you guys opened development to outside world, right?
>>
>> So that we can help you improve already great product.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So, back to qtestlibplugin:
>>
>> After bringing it back from the dead, I realized that the architecture of 
>> this plugin might need adjustment:
>>
>> Right now it has its own type of output “Test Results” (just like “Build 
>> Issues”, “Application Output” and 2 more).
>>
>> But, as this picture shows, there’s not much space for different types of 
>> output:
>>
>>
>>
>> Besides it doesn’t make much sense to “pollute” IDE’s screen with “Test 
>> Results” button and list entry
>>
>> for applications that have nothing to do with QTestLib.
>>
>>
>>
>> It looks like there should be as little presence for this plugin as possible 
>> in the IDE’s GUI.
>>
>> Ideally, this plugin should show itself only if output of a program is in 
>> QTestLib format.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thus this plugin really provides a different format of “Application Output”, 
>> not a different output pane.
>>
>>
>>
>> So proposed adjustment to this plugin is to be able to have several formats 
>> of “Application Output”.
>>
>> By default it’s “raw” output, with the ability to switch to a different 
>> format.
>>
>> In case of qtestlibplugin it can be “test results” and “benchmark results” 
>> formats.
>>
>> Other plugins could have/add their own formats.
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>>
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eike Ziller
>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:00 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] plugin_qtestlib
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:24 PM, ext Bravo.Alex wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Why is it dead:
>>
>> > a)      it’s obsolete, we now have a new XYZ plugin supporting
>>
>> > QTestLib in Qt Creator
>>
>> > b)      the author is working on something else and doesn’t have
>>
>> > time/interest to work on it
>>
>> > c)       it didn’t do much, so it’s not worth maintaining
>>
>> > d)      nobody needs it, we are satisfied with running tests through
>>
>> > test.pl
>>
>>
>>
>> I suppose it's b) and c). Plus that it's not so high in the list of
>>
>> things to do.
>>
>> The only "maybe" still useful parts of the code in the plugin is
>>
>> probably the interaction/parsing of the QTestLib output.
>>
>>
>>
>> ++ Eike
>>
>>
>>
>> >  Alex
>>
>> >
>>
>> > On Tuesday 20 October 2009 17:47:42 ext Bravo.Alex wrote:
>>
>> > > I'm not very successful in finding any info about plugin_qtestlib.
>>
>> > > There's not many comments in the source code either.
>>
>> > >
>>
>> > > plugins.pro says this:
>>
>> > > plugin_qtestlib \ # this seems to be dead
>>
>> > >
>>
>> > > The source tree on gitorious.org is missing
>>
>> > QTestLibPlugin.pluginspec for
>>
>> > >  it.
>>
>> > >
>>
>> > > Does anybody know what it was supposed to do?
>>
>> > It's dead and the code probably is not very useful anymore either.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > daniel
>>
>> >
>>
>> > <ATT00001..txt>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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>>
>> Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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