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That's an excellent idea! How do you plan to host the information about all the libs?

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@Bouni All libraries will be hosted on GitHub. The one thing that developer should add is library.json file and register library via

$ platformio libs register %GITHUB_REPO_URL%

Then PlatformIO will use this library to propose for search/install operations.

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So you perform a search on Github for projects that provide a library.json file, or do you provide a list of all projects that has such a file?
I just think about the time factor for such a large search!?

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@Bouni It is another topic how PlatformIO should operate with registered libraries. I propose to create separated service (preferably Twisted Async App) that will serve each necessary information via REST API. User's PlatformIO CLI tool will communicate with this REST API for search/info operations. Also this service will collect all interesting information from libraries repo like:

• Stars number
• Existing releases (will be used to install specific version of lib)
• Downloads number

Stars + Downloads will be used for RANK-ing search result.

Finally, there isn't a problem to create awesome WEB2.0 page which will allow to search/list/order libraries via browser.

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That sounds absolutely great to me :-)
Hope you will get a lot of users for your project and also a lot of participating lib creators!

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It's a good idea - one annoying thing with a lot of the Energia libs is that they only seem to live in forum postings. A more central repository of libs would be great.

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@g7uvw Yep... I see one solution - to create separated account named "platformio-libs"(piolibs or piolibs-mirror) and here all people from the world will share interesting libraries (which don't live on GitHub at this time). Because I need real GitHub repository for each library. Only in this way I can monitor library changes, examples and etc.

See example of VIM-Scripts. They are hosted inside one account.

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Guys @Bouni @g7uvw @hpsaturn, @elyulka,

I've just finished the work on external Library API + $ platformio lib.

Installation

You can install it (or update) from development branch via:

$ pip install https://github.com/ivankravets/platformio/archive/develop.zip

Documentation

Library Manager Documentation

Library Configuration File

I decided to not wait until lib's developers will add library.json file to their libs. I created separated repository with library config mirror.

Which libraries are suitable for PlatformIO?
Please read http://docs.platformio.ikravets.com/en/latest/librarymanager/create.html

Binary Search

See http://docs.platformio.ikravets.com/en/latest/userguide/lib/cmd_search.html

Testing

I want to ask you to help me with testing and adding new library configs to https://github.com/ivankravets/platformio-libmirror/tree/master/configs. Tell me please which are your favourite libraries.

And... If it will work good I will start to work on the special WEB site with nice GUI :)

Thanks a lot!

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I will test the new feature as soon as i have some free time :-)

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Guys @Bouni @g7uvw @hpsaturn, @elyulka, @lesilva00, @skraelings, @translucide

Great news! PlatformIO has own WebSite http://platformio.ikravets.com

So, you can list an embedded libraries via nice Web-GUI.

Please help with testing and filling of the libraryconfigs https://github.com/ivankravets/platformio-libmirror/tree/master/configs

Which are your favourite libraries that aren't presented in PlatformIO Library list now?

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