Load custom plugin that isn't in the kdevelop tree

[Πέτρος Σιλιγκούνας]

I think I just going to install Linux in a VM and make my life easier.
Thank you.

Σιλιγκούνας Γ. Πέτρος
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:31 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sunday April 12 2020 08:03:40 Πέτρος Σιλιγκούνας wrote:
>
> >Building manually and installing kdevelop on /usr/local came along with
> all
> >sorts of problems as it couldn't find the libcocoa.dylib for the
> >QT_PLUGIN_PATH and messed up the original installation of brew.
>
> For this kind of thing it *might* be easier to take inspiration on my
> officious MacPorts ports tree for KF5 which has patches for Qt that make it
> possible to install KF5 as if on Linux (or just install MacPorts with my
> tree for this development purpose).
>
> >Can someone point me out how a plugin is tested before it actually moves
> >into the kdevelop tree?
>
> That would be a question for the -devel mailing list, but you could take
> the kdev-python, kdev-mercurial plugins as an example. Or, because your
> plugin is already part of the tree, do your development in a branch in
> which you merge upstream changes regularly. That way you probably won't
> have to worry about how it gets installed, only how to apply the HB build
> recipe to a git working copy instead of to what it would normally use.
>
>
> Then of course you could install a Linux distro in a VM and work from
> there ... ;)
>
> R.
>
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