Move external component to ESPHome?

[genebean]

Just wondering if you all have looked at moving this into ESPHome instead of maintaining the external component.

[guillempages]

I actually thought about this, but this component is basically a wrapper around the TFT_eSPI library, which is pretty heavy-weight. So I decided against it, because I think the chances of it getting accepted by core are pretty slim

A "real" component would implement the driver directly, without the library, and that is way more complex, than the current implementation.

That said, there are currently many changes happening in the display area in core; after the dust is settled there might be a chance that the display gets supported upstream, or that the driver can be updated.

Until then, this will probably stay an external component.