Show detailed info about library using "platformio lib show" command

[karlp]

platformio lib search json shows you only the vague descriptions from library.json files, with library "64" for instance being, ""Benoit Blanchon": An elegant and efficient JSON library for embedded systems"

platformio lib show 64 won't show you anything at all until you've installed it. This is... not very nice. Where is it going to be installed from? What code is this?

Even after installing it, `... show 64`` still only shows the author's provided url, not the source url at all. In this case for instance, you get:

(.env27)karlp@teros:~/src/hoho$ platformio lib show 64
Json
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Authors: Benoit Blanchon http://blog.benoitblanchon.fr
Keywords: json, rest, http, web
Frameworks: arduino
Platforms: atmelavr, atmelsam, timsp430, titiva, teensy, freescalekinetis, ststm32, nordicnrf51, nxplpc, espressif, siliconlabsefm32
Version: ab2502f7b8

An elegant and efficient JSON library for embedded systems

(.env27)karlp@teros:~/src/hoho$

Benoit's blog is interesting, but it's not useful to say where the code is coming from. The git version is included, but it should be including the source url, or some form of the entire "repository" section of the library.json block.

[ivankravets]

How about http://platformio.org/#!/lib/show/64/Json ?

Yes, CLI isn't informative. Do you have propositions?

[ivankravets]

How about platformio lib info %ID% ? I hope that in PlatformIO 3.0 we will allow to use names instead IDs.

[karlp]

I'd like show or info to be a single command, showing info including the installed state if possible, I don't see any real benefit in having a separate command to see the full details of a package that has been installed vs one that hasn't.

Thanks for the prompt response!

[ivankravets]

See example:

• http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/userguide/lib/cmd_show.html