Support for sketch-local libraries

[lmihalkovic]

Having run into the issue myself, I noticed that a number of people were asking about libraries inside a sketch project. This is the result of a couple of local changes to the latest IDE.

Sketches can have a local "libraries" sub-folder with libraries. The outline view displays them in a list. The source files for local libraries can be edited. When selecting a file from a library, all the tabs of the main editor are replaced with equivalent tabs for each of the library's file (doing it this way makes it possible to reuse all the existing Editor logic with very minimal changes).

Would there be any interest for folding this into the release?

[shiftleftplusone]

excellent work, highly appreciated !
+1
(y)

[lmihalkovic]

For the time being I implemented my own builder as I was wasting too much time on arduino-builder (go is a no-go ;-) ). On the bright side, switching between the 3 builders I have is a config option.
What I really want to look more closely at is the user configurable library-priority scheme I described in #4064 and #4065.

[ffissore]

Duplicate of #314. See #314 (comment)

[lmihalkovic]

What change would like to see?

The ability to include libraries on a per-sketch basis. This should probably be in the code/ folder to mirror Processing, or a libraries/ folder (to mirror other library locations). In the long run, this should support pre-compiled libraries too (issue #199), but source libraries would be a good start.

Why?

So people can include all the dependencies for a sketch in one place. This would also be a nice place to put assembly files for a sketch (since you can't edit them in the IDE) - issue #274.

After 3 years I have to assume that regardless of the many benefits some people may have seen over the years, the company has decided that it either does not have the resources to make certain enhancements to the product, or simply prefers to keep it in sunset mode with only the minimum amount of maintenance until something else replaces it. no pb at all. I wrote what I needed to keep my code structured.

[shiftleftplusone]

just curious about how the Arduino Studio actually handles the libraries issue...
http://labs.arduino.org/Arduino%20Studio