local recipe support

[Andrei-Pozolotin]

1. currently there seems to be no way to support a local recipe:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy-ios/blob/2cb084c26b7e9b45b027961cded13521b8db5b6b/kivy_ios/toolchain.py

2. in a simple way, i.e. how p4a is doing it:

https://github.com/kivy/python-for-android/blob/develop/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py

        generic_parser.add_argument(
            '--local-recipes', '--local_recipes',
            dest='local_recipes', default='./p4a-recipes',
            help='Directory to look for local recipes')

[misl6]

If I get it right your request, We already have this feature and it's exposed by --add-custom-recipe.

You can add multiple custom recipes by using it:

python toolchain.py build mycustompackage1 mycustompackage2 --add-custom-recipe /PATH/TO/MY/RECIPE1 --add-custom-recipe /PATH/TO/MY/RECIPE2

[Andrei-Pozolotin]

@misl6 Mirko: thank you, I did not see --add-custom-recipe before

a couple of questions, please:

1. this does not seem to work for custom recipe to override/replace existing/provided recipe? for example in order to locally resolve #595

   toolchain build python3 --add-custom-recipe /path-to/custom-recipe/python3

2. clean is not supported, then how to clean?

   toolchain clean recipe_x --add-custom-recipe /path-to/custom-recipe/recipe_x

[misl6]

Hi @Andrei-Pozolotin ,

Yes, it doesn't override an existing recipe and after checking python-for-android code, It probably should do in order to be fully consistent.

Also, clean is not supported and should be.

Leaving that open and marking it as milestone 1.3.0. Thank you for reporting.

[tcaduser]

I am able to add a custom recipe, but it was not getting installed onto the app. To do this I had to move the recipe from my local directory into the virtual environment of my host python:

$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python3.9/site-packages/kivy_ios/recipes/myapp/__init__.py