Skip to content

Navigation Menu

Sign in
Appearance settings

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

Provide feedback

We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Sign up
Appearance settings

Remove seldom-used boards platforms from the primary package index #11690

Open
Labels
Component: Board/Lib ManagerBoards Manager or Library Manager feature requestA request to make an enhancement (not a bug fix)
@probonopd

Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This is the flipside of arduino/arduino-ide#326.

I'm always frustrated when the Boards Manager presents me with exotic, expensive boards not many people are using. These could be added by the few users who are using them via a JSON file if needed.

As @per1234 pointed out,

Arduino has already made it extremely easy to install support for 3rd party boards platforms. It's no great hardship to add a URL to your preferences.

So I think only the most popular boards (the ones sold by the millions) should show up there by default. Not "POC" ones very few people possess.

Describe the solution you'd like

Remove

image
image

because they feel like advertising to me.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I don't know how to remove them manually.

Additional context

The freed-up space could be used for the most popular boards in the world, which is a separate feature request:

arduino/arduino-ide#326

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    Component: Board/Lib ManagerBoards Manager or Library Manager feature requestA request to make an enhancement (not a bug fix)

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

      Relationships

      None yet

      Development

      No branches or pull requests

      Issue actions

        AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /