Commits on Sep 14, 2024

1. Only apply VID-only port property association to compatible dev tools …

   The Arduino boards platform framework allows properties of a port to be
   associated with a board definition. The Arduino development software
   will identify a port having the associated properties as that board.
   
   The "Blues boards" board definition contains an association for the vid
   port property value of 0x30A4. Typically, in addition to the vid
   property, a companion pid property will also be associated so that the
   association is specific to devices with that VID/PID pair. However, this
   board definition only associates a vid property. Although unusual, this
   is reasonable in this case where the board definition provides support
   for all models of the Blues boards (rather than one specific model as is
   typically the case).
   
   Unfortunately it seems that the Arduino IDE 1.x codebase is written in a
   way that assumes a PID association will always be provided along with a
   VID association. When a platform is installed that contains a board
   definition that associates a vid property without also associating a pid
   property, it breaks port discovery entirely, causing no ports to be
   discovered for any board.
   
   The port discovery and port properties association system has been
   completely reworked since the time of Arduino IDE 1.x. The modern
   system, which is used by Arduino IDE 2.x and Arduino CLI, doesn't have
   any problem with this VID-only association. This means that it would be
   possible to define this association without breaking Arduino IDE 1.x if
   the association could be applied exclusively for the modern Arduino
   development software versions. Arduino IDE 1.x only uses the port
   property association for the convenience feature of labeling the port in
   the "Port" menu, so the lack of an association doesn't cause any
   meaningful impact.
   
   At the time the port discovery and port properties association system
   was reworked, the port property association properties were renamed to
   support association with any arbitrary properties. (while retaining
   support for the old property names). The new property names are only
   recognized by the modern Arduino development software and have no effect
   on Arduino IDE 1.x.
   
   The port association properties for the "Blues boards" board definition
   are migrated from the old property names previously in use to the new
   names. This causes the port property association to no longer be
   recognized by Arduino IDE 1.x, fixing the breakage of its port discovery
   system. The association will still be recognized by the modern versions
   of Arduino development software just as before.

   

   per1234 committed Sep 14, 2024
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