Freezing URL-based libraries during firmware compilation

[fill1890]

mip can install libraries directly from GitHub (or other online sources) by passing a URL and using a package.json file. Is it possible to do the same thing in a manifest.py file? I know I can use require() to install directly from micropython-lib, but I have other libraries that are hosted remotely I'd like to freeze into the firmware.

Currently I clone the GitHub repos and use package() or module(), but this becomes tedious when I need to install multiple libraries.

Thanks!

[bidrohini]

Unfortunately, there is no built-in feature in MicroPython that allows you to directly install libraries from a URL or GitHub repository within the manifest.py file, as you can with package.json in Node.js.

[Josverl]

If you are already use git clone to get those resources in , then I suggest you take a look at git submodule to automate this for you.
You will need to get used to a few additional commands, and 'pin' specific versions, commits or branches of your dependencies , but once you do, it can work quite well.

This is a quite common workflow , and is also used by MicroPython itself to pull in the dependencies needed for a build by running the make submodules command as part of the build.

See :

• https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/.gitmodules
• the make submodules command and the submodules: section in the different makefiles.