platformio needs some cleanup

[dotlambda]

In #38483, pythonPackages.platformio was moved in order to be able to pin the click version. However, some further work is required to make the platformio packaging situation better:

• consider using buildPythonApplication
• consider using python.withPackages
• More like a question: For what are python, pip and bottle needed? Maybe add an inline comment.
• Add a version to the chrottenv.nix expression. This is especially important for people who install it using nix-env -i. This version should be taken from the platformio python package.

/cc @mogorman @makefu

[dotlambda]

I'll probably end up doing this myself because I need platformio for https://esphomelib.com/esphomeyaml/. (See https://github.com/OttoWinter/esphomeyaml/blob/13eca6012d743ca559583af0c85607b0318572af/setup.py#L26.) I'll have to look into how I can turn platformio into a python module because it uses buildFHSUserEnv. If someone has any experience with this, feel free to tell me.

[dotlambda]

Actually, I might get away with patching platformio out of install_requires since it's only used as a binary, never imported: https://github.com/OttoWinter/esphomeyaml/blob/13eca6012d743ca559583af0c85607b0318572af/esphomeyaml/platformio_api.py#L15-L21

[dotlambda]

cc @peterhoeg

[peterhoeg]

I haven't used pio as a module - only as a standalone program for https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna.

But esphomeyaml looks neat!

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[pvonmoradi]

Also, platformio supports more frameworks than only arduino so why is it under pkgs/development/arduino/?
Maybe it is better to put it under pkgs/development/python-modules/? Or maybe create a development/embedded/ dir and put arduino/ and platformio and other microcontroller/embedded-design packages there?
https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest//core/installation.html#installation-methods

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[dotlambda]

cc @oxzi