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Allow importing a ZIP library package with multiple libraries inside #5043

Open vshymanskyy opened 8 years ago

vshymanskyy commented 8 years ago

I'm core developer of the Blynk library. It supports lot's of hardware types and boards (more than 60!), but it also means it has a bunch of dependency libraries. We run into a situation, where it would be much easier to import our library, bundled with some dependencies in a single ZIP file.

For example, to be able to import all libraries from this ZIP: https://github.com/blynkkk/blynk-library/releases/download/v0.3.7/Blynk_v0.3.7.zip

We could think about adding a special marker file in the root of the package, so IDE can reliably detect a multi-library package.

vshymanskyy commented 8 years ago

ping....

bperrybap commented 8 years ago

Rather than inventing something new for this, perhaps it is time to look at extending the library manager to support platformio which has a .jason file that can specify dependencies. It would also be a win for the Arduino support team as they could start using that to add new libraries rather than having to manually weed through Arduino issues.

joshualyon commented 7 years ago

This would also be helpful for trainings, workshops, and labs where it might be necessary to import several different libraries.