[Pkg-electronics-devel] Packaging Arduino libraries

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Rock,

On 2025-09-06 21:56, Rock Storm wrote:
> Do you really need this library to be a system package to install it?
> Couldn't a user simply install this library into its current working
> Arduino setup? It's been a while since I used Arduino to be honest but I
> seem to remember one could install any libraries locally to run along
> your Arduino projects.

Yes, a user can simply download, unpack this library and use it without 
system installation.

Nevertheless I believe system installation would as well be beneficial. 
First, 'apt-get install' saves time wrt searching, downloading and 
unpacking. Second, for user-installed libraries one has to set 
appropriate Arduino library paths, while installing in system location 
would make them usable out-of-the-box. Finally, I find it neat to have 
dependency versions tied to the OS version.

Best wishes,
Andrius