Get into upstream QtCreator

[ChALkeR]

In #1 (comment) it was mentioned:

So, in future it will be possible to include the plugin in the QtCreator distribution.

This plugin seems to work, and it would resolve QTCREATORBUG-14013, I guess.

So, any plans for including the plugin into the QtCreator upstream distribution?

[hgraeber]

Sure, the main functionality, reading editorconfig files and applying them to files, is ready. I think the best solution for spreading qtcreator plugins is to provide them upstream. Maybe, despite of having some additional plans for it, I shall do it now.

[matpen]

Are there any updates regarding this? The bug on QtCreator seems to have no activity...

[dail8859]

@hgraeber I see the hold up for that bug is due to the 3rd party libraries of editorconfig-core-c and pcre. Recently I started implementing the editorconfig core in pure Qt5 (for my own purposes) that does not rely on any outside libraries. I plan on releasing this "soon" if/when I get some free time to test it some more. I'm assuming this would be of interest to you?

[hgraeber]

@dail8859 My own implementation based on Qt5 is nearly ready and I will publish it here as part of the editorconfig project, too. Nevertheless thanks for your offer.If your code is accessible for me, I will have a look. Maybe we can join forces.

[dail8859]

@hgraeber Good to hear. After trying to run my version against the editorconfig-core-test repo it seems there are quite a few more corner cases to handle rather than the simple wildcard patterns described on the editor config website...so given the holidays and the new year I might not be able to get back to working on it for several more weeks. If/when you release yours I will definitely be interested it checking it out.

[arBmind]

Any updates on this?

Also Qt Creator 4.7.0 has received no build so far. Am I missing something?

[hgraeber]

Upstream doesn't like additional dependencies like editorconfig-core-c and pcre. It already has pcre2.
I would like to have an editor-core-qt, which extensively uses qt instead. I am already working on it and will push it to github when it passes the most basic unit tests.

I will make a build for qt-creator soon.

[KOLANICH]

pcre
pcre2

Why not std::regex?

[hgraeber]

@KOLANICH

Why not std::regex?

pcre2 is not my choice, but used indirectly via editorconfig-core-c. When editorconfig-qtcreator will go upstream, I aim to replace editorconfig-core-c with a more Qt-ish core and use QRegularExpression (Which uses a copy of pcre2 internally) instead. std::regex is tabou, because Qt and QtCreator shall work with older C++ compilers and runtime libraries, too.

[dail8859]

@hgraeber See https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-qt

[redtide]

hello, is there any news about this?

[hgraeber]

I want to switch to editorconfig-core-qt, which is not ready yet. This one uses Qt functionality for regex and maybe be more acceptable for inclusion in qtcreator.