Outdated low-power library

r3aktanz · October 5, 2021, 6:51pm

Hello everyone,

When using the libraries manager from PlatformIO I noticed that the low-power library from Rocket Scream Electronics is only available in version 1.6. There is version 1.81 on GitHub.

How are the libraries in the manager updated?

maxgerhardt · October 5, 2021, 6:54pm

The version info comes from the library.properties manifest file, not the Github release pages. And that says

github.com

rocketscream/Low-Power/blob/master/library.properties#L1-L3


      
          name=Low-Power
          version=1.81
          author=Rocket Scream Electronics

Due to the library maintainers no increasing the version or otherwise changing the library.properties, PlatformIO does not detect a change that would trigger an automatic update.

@ivankravets can you manually update the library (https://platformio.org/lib/show/38/Low-Power)?

maxgerhardt · October 5, 2021, 6:56pm

As a workaround, you can always specify a direct source like

lib_deps = 
   https://github.com/rocketscream/Low-Power/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

in the platformio.ini of the project to pull the master version (docs).

ivankravets · October 9, 2021, 11:52am

Sorry, we can’t manually update the library. Could someone make PR to Low-Power/library.properties at master · rocketscream/Low-Power · GitHub ?

maxgerhardt · October 9, 2021, 12:20pm

PR is open at Update version in library.properties by maxgerhardt · Pull Request #117 · rocketscream/Low-Power · GitHub.