Boards manager installation option for 2.5.0 ?

[hmeijdam]

I see you released 2.5.0
Will there be a boards manager installation for it or will it be manual installation only?

Besides the Github release that I am using in a portable installation, I like to have another release version available, just in case something gets broken in the Github version while developing.

[SpenceKonde]

2.5.0? No, and 2.5.0 is being pulled

I actually thought it was in board manager, but I'd forogotten to pull the new json file to the webserver.

But 2.5.0 doesn't work, I just fixed the critical bug and am in the process of releasing 2.5.0 megaTinyCore and 1.4.0 DxCore

[SpenceKonde]

2.5.1.is now available in booard manager/

[hmeijdam]

Hmm.... for now I am getting this error if I want to update in Arduino IDE 1.8.16 portable installation via the boards manager.

Let me try an older IDE version.
[edit] 1.8.15 gives me the same error.

{edit 2] FWIW, Installing your DXCore via boards manager in the same Arduino IDE 1.8.16 worked just fine

[SpenceKonde]

Am in the middle of moving atm might have a chance to look at it tonight is probably something I screwed up while frantically trying to deal with the bug before people showed up to help

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[hmeijdam]

No worries, this can wait. Having a house is more important than having a hobby.

[SpenceKonde]

It installed without issue for me

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[hmeijdam]

I downloaded Arduino 1.8.18 into a fresh portable installation, and now this core installed without issues via the boards manager. So must be something on my end that's causing this. Sorry for bothering.

[fijam]

I could not update from 2.4.2 using Arduino IDE 1.8.15 or 1.8.18 either, with the same exception.

Had to delete the core manually from %AppData%\Local\Arduino15\packages\megaTinyCore and install it fresh.

[SpenceKonde]

Wtf is this? I haven't done anything that I'd expect to cause installation issues...

[hmeijdam]

Here is the error console message when attempting to update via boards manager

java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:179)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ContributionInstaller.remove(ContributionInstaller.java:275)
	at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:170)
	... 1 more

[hmeijdam]

The workaround to get it fixed is to delete the "megaTinyCore" folder and it's contents from the "Packages" folder. Then you can reinstall again from the Boards manager.

Note: I have tested on portable installation.

[SpenceKonde]

I don't know what is causing this issue and cannot reproduce it.

[hmeijdam]

I would not bother. I have about 12 portable installations of the IDE, and suddenly on 4 of them that have Megatinycore installed via boardmanager I could not upgrade Megatinycore anymore. The github version and the fresh (portable) install of 2.5.0 just work fine.