Remove unavailable items from depends field of library.properties

[per1234]

The depends field of the library.properties metadata file specifies the dependencies that should be installed along with
the library by the Arduino Library Manager.

This field must contain only the names of libraries that are available for installation via Library Manager.

The presence of any items which are not in Library Manager causes installation of the library to fail:

• Arduino IDE 1.x: "no protocol:" error
• Arduino IDE 2.x: fails silently (arduino/arduino-ide#621)
• Arduino CLI: "No valid dependencies solution found" error

Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-sdk-error-trying-to-download-library/967231

Related

• Arduino Library Registry me-no-dev/AsyncTCP#147
• Arduino library manager me-no-dev/ESPAsyncTCP#139
• Available via Arduino Library Manager? me-no-dev/ESPAsyncTCP#158
• Add ESPAsyncTCP to the Arduino Library Manager me-no-dev/ESPAsyncTCP#168

[khoih-prog]

Hi @per1234

Thanks for the PR. We've been waiting and expecting those libraries to be added to Arduino Library Manager quite a long time.

Can someone help by forking them, then adding to Library Manager. Or Arduino Library Manager can be modified to add any library, by specifying git location, similar to library.json

AsyncHTTPRequest_Generic/library.json

Lines 75 to 78 in e981dea

	{
	"name": "STM32AsyncTCP",
	"version": "https://github.com/khoih-prog/STM32AsyncTCP"
	}

Anyway, I'm merging the PR now to avoid issues.

[per1234]

We've been waiting and expecting those libraries to be added to Arduino Library Manager quite a long time.

Yeah, it is really unfortunate that they aren't available via Library Manager since they are dependencies of many libraries.

Can someone help by forking them, then adding to Library Manager.

I think that is the best solution. The requests go back years without any response except for a bot closing them unjustly.

Arduino Library Manager can be modified to add any library, by specifying git location, similar to library.json

That is essentially how it works already. Anyone is welcome to submit any repository from any of the major Git hosting services. There is no requirement for it to be the library maintainer that makes the submission.

However, the library must be compliant with the requirements. From a quick glance, these libraries are compliant, except for one very important thing: a Git tag. Unfortunately, these repositories don't contain any tags. It would only take a matter of seconds to add them, but only someone with write permissions in the repository could do it.

[khoih-prog]

Hi @per1234

The new AsyncHTTPRequest_Generic releases v1.8.2 has just been published thanks to your PR. Your contribution is noted in Contributions and Thanks

Best Regards,

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Releases v1.8.2

1. Fix library.properties to remove unavailable items from depends. Check Remove unavailable items from depends field of library.properties #35
2. Remove lorol's LittleFS_esp32 library dependency as LittleFS has been included in new ESP32 cores v1.0.6+
3. Fix compile error for AsyncHTTPRequest_ESP_WiFiManager example
4. Update Packages' Patches

[khoih-prog]

Hi @per1234

Anyone is welcome to submit any repository from any of the major Git hosting services. There is no requirement for it to be the library maintainer that makes the submission.

IMO, you're the best person to have them added into Arduino Library Manager and provide good services to the community.