Why platformio does not install latest library version as dependency?

euphi · November 14, 2017, 9:38am

My library seems to pull an old version of a dependency, although no specific version is defined.

See Travis CI - Test and Deploy Your Code with Confidence

<ESP_Homie_WS2812FX> v0.9.1 pulls

| |-- <WS2812FX> v1.0.0

altough v1.0.1 is available (since several days).

?

Both platformio.ini and library.json depend on “WS2812FX” (without version) so I expected that the latest available version is installed?

mrred128 · November 26, 2017, 10:12am

Found it… https://libraries.io/platformio/ArduinoSTL/0.1.4

ivankravets · November 26, 2017, 4:20pm

PlatformIO caches downloaded libraries. See

github.com

euphi/ESP_Homie_WS2812FX/blob/master/.travis.yml#L52:L54


      
          
          
#
          # Template #2: The project is intended to by used as a library with examples
          #
          
          
language: python
          python:
              - "3.8"
          
          
sudo: false
          #cache:
          #    directories:
          #        - "~/.platformio"
          
          
#env:
          #    - PLATFORMIO_CI_SRC=examples/main.cpp
          
          
install:
              - pip install -U platformio
                #    - platformio platform install espressif8266 --with-all-packages
                #    - platformio lib -g install Homie

You can cleanup cache in Travis CI manually. See

euphi · November 26, 2017, 10:12pm

Thanks. I figured this out just before posting.

However, why 'pio lib -g install` does not update already installed libraries?
What is your recommendation for “install or update” latest matching library version for running in a CI environment?

ivankravets · November 26, 2017, 10:25pm

Just add after this line

platformio lib -g update

euphi · December 11, 2017, 11:15am

Thanks. I wasn’t aware of the caching for platformio installation.

I changed all my projects to update libraries - and after I noted that this does not update the platforms/frameworks, also a line to update these (just platformio update) - as travis install all libraries globally, this also updates these, so there is no need for an extra platformio lib -g update.

I think it would be helpful to add the update to the template for project and library of .travis.yml ?

ivankravets · December 12, 2017, 7:36pm

Thanks! Fixed in