Announcement: GUI for managing ESP-IDF checkouts/tools

[sysprogs]

Hi All,

We were recently looking into updating VisualGDB to use ESP-IDF 5.5 and noticed that Espressif made a very solid system where each IDF version explicitly references specific versions of tools it needs via the tools.json file. We tested it with a few ESP-IDF versions and it worked out-of-the-box without any adjustments.

So, we made a free tool that shows the ESP-IDF and tool versions installed in your system, and can also automatically download (and reset) all dependencies for a particular ESP-IDF version. It does the same thing as the Espressif's VS Code extension, just shows everything together in a nice table with shortcuts for managing them.

Same GUI is now included in VisualGDB, but we thought the community would find a stand-alone graphical tool useful as well.
Cheers!