changes to package_name and contact email for esp8266 package

[ubidefeo]

dear Sparkfun
we had some issues while using our CLI when both your boards definitions and Espressif's platforms were installed.
I investigated and found out that there was an overlap in package name between yours and Espressif's.
Applying this change removes all conflicts and the available platforms for install are correctly displayed when an Arduino CLI user (or workflow) issues a arduino-cli core search esp8266

Sparkfun:esp8266 2.1.2   SparkFun ESP8266 Boards
esp8266:esp8266  2.7.4   esp8266

before only the one maintained by Espressif would show.
Hope you'll want to consider this PR

thank you
ubi de feo
Arduino Tooling Team

[ubidefeo]

I have been digging deeper into your package file, and found out that you had two entries on platforms and tools so I put them all together.
They have been tested by placing the index on my server and trying to search/install both ESP32 and esp8266 from your platforms and it worked flawlessly.
You might want to run through the changes but I hope you merge it because it can break installation of cores as we found out while working on CLI.

Thanks
ubi

[ubidefeo]

@edspark
we keep having issues with your esp8266 entry in the index.
It conflicts with the official Espressif package, and we're discussing wether/how we should just force out duplicates.
If you fix your index replacing esp8266:esp8266 with Sparkfun:esp8266 this would solve a lot of issues.
Also as requested please add contact email to that platform branch.

Essentially if you update lines

2428    "email": "[email protected]",
2429     "name": "esp8266"

to

2428    "email": "[email protected]",
2429     "name": "Sparkfun"

this would get rid of the conflicts.

Please let us know if this can be done soon, it's creating a lot of issues for users.

thanks
ubi

[edspark]

Sorry about the problems; I've went ahead and updated as per your suggestion. I'll get to a new release sometime today or tomorrow.