platform-raspberrypi

> It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look I never followed all the ins and outs but from having a quick look through the comments on https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 the following happened: - Developer independent of RPi opens PR to add RP2040 support to PlatformIO - PlatformIO don't want to merge it, expecting some financial contribution to help maintain the support (seems reasonable) - They discuss this with RPi, ultimately RPi don't want to pay the asked contributions so that PlatformIO are happy maintaining support (this also seems reasonable) - End result is no RP2040 support in PlatformIO Ultimately maintaining things isn't free. RPi have chosen the development environment(s) they wish to support and it hasn't included PlatformIO. What's weird or a bad look?

It seems like Espressif are in the same situation as Pi w/r/t PlatformIO[1]. As an outsider, it sounds like PlatformIO was trying to extract a very large annual payment from RPi and Espressif, and that was after the initial support was added in, and some of the community started adopting it. It's a weird situation, but I think PlatformIO built up a dominant position by supporting all these platforms and accepting community contributions to do so, then tried extracting value from the manufacturers directly after the fact, blocking further community PRs that would add new board revisions or fix bugs. See related: [2] [1] https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/12... [2] https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36

PlatformIO seems to be seeking a support and sponsorship agreement with Raspberry Pi. The integration of the community-supported core Arduino-Pico that's enabled by this PR would indeed be a significant upgrade to the existing core. It seems that this core now has broad community support with nearly 100 contributors, and the burden of continuing integration after merging this PR would be minimal. PlatformIO appears to be using the support burden as a shield for defending their shady tactics of withholding approval (and indeed completely ghosting the entire community after repeated attempts for further comment on the PR for over half a year) of this highly wished for community-derived PR while they quietly attempted to woo Raspberry Pi Trading into a support contract last year. The situation is now complicated by the fact that representati

Sorry for the late response, it was a night in Ukraine. A lot of negative comments here without a deep understating of the real issue. Please read my detailed explanation in the original PR https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36#i...

A better link to PlatformIo response: https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36#i... Whilst PlatformIO come across as the villains in this story, adding the RPi support to their core would indicate some kind of support/work from them in future versions (beyond the ‘non production’ support they provide now). It’s upto them if they want to provide this, otherwise it can stay as a patch. Ultimately this is the never ending saga of the profit/work from open source flowing from easily copyable work of software companies and enthusiasts towards more easily monetisable hardware companies