PlatformIO Library file

[pfeerick]

Minimum required library.json to allow easy install/management with PlatformIO library manager

[TheNitek]

Any chance to merge this? Would be awesome!

[pfeerick]

In the meantime, it can be easily added via the git repo reference... i.e. lib_deps = markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel will work just fine, as long as you have git installed. It would just be nice for it to come up in the Library manager when people search for libraries. To be honest, I'd prefer to see #17 accepted over this PR as I've since come to realise the PlatformIO Library Registry can work with that file as well, making it so the author doesn't need to maintain two or more library manifiest files.

[rob040]

In the meantime, it can be easily added via the git repo reference... i.e. lib_deps = markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel will work just fine, as long as you have git installed. It would just be nice for it to come up in the Library manager when people search for libraries.

Currently (6 years later) it does not (anymore?).

Adding lib_deps = markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel to platformio.ini will cause the following error:

UnknownPackageError: Could not find the package with 'markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel' requirements for your system 'windows_amd64'

Specifying as
lib_deps = https://github.com/markruys/arduino-Max72xxPanel
Does solve that, but the fact that this library is missing version information and was never released and is unmaintained for 12 years is not a good recommendation.

@markruys please implement #16 and #17