Specify library dependencies in library.properties

[per1234]

Specifying the library dependencies in the depends field of library.properties causes the Arduino Library Manager (Arduino IDE 1.8.10 and newer) to offer to install any missing dependencies during installation of this library.

arduino-cli lib install will automatically install the dependencies (arduino-cli 0.7.0 and newer).

Reference:
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5:-Library-specification#libraryproperties-file-format

[tablatronix]

YES! Specifically what version ? I do not think this is working with 6.x ?

[per1234]

@tablatronix this feature was added in Arduino IDE 1.8.10 and Arduino CLI 0.7.0.

[tablatronix]

Yeah but I cannot find how to add the versioning to dependancies.

[per1234]

Ah, now I understand what you mean by "version". Thanks for pointing that out! Will need to wait until either this library is updated to work with the modern ArduinoJson or Arduino adds support for specifying library dependency versions.

[tablatronix]

It seems it might be able to handle versioning but I have not found the docs. I dont use arduino Ide

adafruit/DHT-sensor-library#118 (comment)

[per1234]

Unfortunately not yet:

BTW these constraints are implemented on the indexer (so they are reported on the library_index.json) but not yet in the IDE (it will always install the latest version).

I'm sure we'll have that feature before too long.

The docs are here:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/library-specification/#libraryproperties-file-format

[tablatronix]

Yeah I saw they can only support one library folder atm so that is the problem I think