Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP IDF)

[humanfriend22]

I've recently gotten into developing on an ESP32 board using the ESP-IDF framework and I found the setup instructions by Espressif a bit confusing at first, and thought it might be a good addition to mise. I'd like to point out I'm fairly new to both mise & ESP-IDF, so apologies for any misconceptions about how this would go.

Essentially, using it requires installing prerequisites with Homebrew, installing the ESP-IDF Installation Manager (EIM), using the GUI/CLI to install a version, and then sourcing each version's activation script when starting a project. It's more of a collection of tools tied together by idf.py than a single binary that can easily be version-tracked.

The end goal of adding this to mise would be to run mise use esp-idf@6.0.2 and have it installed, activated, and ready to go. I'm not sure if this is out of scope for a mise registry tool given its multiple dependencies: CMake, the Xtensa/RISC-V toolchains, and the Python venv for idf.py. I also don't think EIM itself should be added to mise, since its purpose seems to be to replace installation managers like pyenv and nvm. Perhaps it could instead be added as a core tool that installs and drives EIM under the hood.

https://github.com/espressif/idf-im-ui
https://developer.espressif.com/tags/esp-idf/
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/get-started/index.html#installation

[risu729]

Please check https://mise.jdx.dev/contributing.html#adding-tools. I think it's unlikely a PR for this to get merged.

[humanfriend22]

Yeah thats kind of why I wanted open a discussion to see if anyone had ideas regarding this because I couldn't find a single discussion or issue about ESP32s. If I understand correctly, somehow the github backend should work for the entire ESP-IDF toolchain, perhaps each dependency could be added separately to the registry. Otherwise, it seems like it would have to be added as a core tool but even those are for simple versioned binaries just maintained directly by mise.

[risu729]

If they provide prebuilt binaries on GitHub releases, the github backend works. I don't really understand well about its dependency, but you can create a vfox plugin if it requires building or smth complex. New core tools won't be accepted.