[Request]: platformio

[mid-kid]

Prerequisites

• [X] I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• [X] Non-GUI tool
• [X] Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 500 stars and/or 150 forks)
• [X] English interface (or at least English documentation)
• [X] Latest stable version
• [X] Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• [ ] Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)
  • I haven't done proper research into this. Nothing in the documentation explains how to install it manually, but there's a PyPI package for it, and the "recommended" install script must get it from somewhere, right? At the end of the day it's just a tool you add to PATH.

Name

platformio

Description

Ecosystem and package management tool for embedded toolchains

Homepage

https://platformio.org

Download Link(s)

https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/installation/methods/index.html https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

It's essentially becoming the gold standard for embedded development on windows, displacing the various proprietary IDEs permeating the ecosystem.

I don't particularly like its nature as an opaque set of binary utilities that tries to be The One Way to build embedded projects (it doesn't give you an easy way to build software without the platformio tools, much like what arduino projects tend to), especially on linux, but it makes a lot of sense in the context of windows and scoop in particular, and it's getting harder and harder to deny its influence.

[rashil2000]

The standalone tool for PlatformIO is the IDE, the rest of them are just extensions for various editors.

What exactly would you want Scoop to facilitate in, here?

[mid-kid]

The standalone tool for PlatformIO is the pio command-line utility and build driver. Scoop would aid in making it easy to install, like how arduino-cli is currently packaged.