how to add patch on top of Arduino framework?

[uzi18]

Is it possible to use upstream patch before project build?

[TD-er]

@uzi18 I was looking into this custom platform documentation Maybe we can make our own set of platform definitions, which already contain some patches, etc.

Only thing is, I don't know what part should be the 'arduinoespressif8266' package. See my other issue: #109

[TD-er]

@uzi18 See the current platformio.ini of ESPeasy. It is now using pre-patched version of Puya patch, which is back-ported from core 2.5.0

In short, I had to fetch the platform package, run the patch manually and make a tar.gz from it. Also the package.json file has to be changed to allow the "-puya" postfix in the version. These files I had to upload to my server and generate a SHA for it. This is all included in the manifest.json I put next to the files.

For example core 2.4.1:

[core_2_4_1]
platform                  = https://github.com/TD-er/platform-espressif8266.git#patch/v1.7.3_Puya

That's a branch on the fork of this repo on my account. In there I made a single commit: https://github.com/TD-er/platform-espressif8266/commit/750760555e9bf00eaccf1395707f9b669b1ade3d to set the repository to my fork and add a packageRepository location to my server. (manifest.json file) That's the only repository able to serve "version": "1.20401.3-puya" which is the one we're requesting in our platform.json file.

So it's a lot of work, and also it will not keep in sync when @ivankravets will release a new version. For older core libs it may be worth it to add something which does not need any patching in future core libs.

[uzi18]

ok will check this out, nice idea