chipKIT32/chipKIT32-MAX — Issue #172: Sketch folder hardware directory support
Author: ricklon
Created: 2011-12-20 00:28:23+00:00
State: open

You can place additional platforms into the sketch folder directory called "hardware." However, there are few things that need additional support. Here are the list of issues:
1. The naming of core libraries, and libraries is unclear
2. The platform core path is derived and is not soley based on the preference set in platforms.txt or boards.txt
3. There needs to be a way specify the relative path for compilers, cores, libraries, examples
4. There needs to be a way to specify a reference to the application path, libraries, cores, examples, compiler

Refactoring this will will make it possible to drop new platforms directly into user space like adding new libraries to use space. This can greatly help in the testing of new compilers, libraries, and platforms.