Sort Tools > Programmer menu like the classic IDE does

[per1234]

Describe the current behavior

Arduino IDE 1.x sorts the Tools > Programmer menu according to the order of occurrence of the name property for each programmer definition in the platform's programmers.txt configuration file. This allows the platform developer to sort the programmers in some logical order in the menu (e.g., putting commonly used programmers at the top of the menu, or grouping related programmers together).

Arduino IDE 2.x sorts them by alphabetical order, which gives the platform author no control.

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Arduino IDE 1.x:

Arduino IDE 2.x:

To reproduce

1. Select Tools > Board > Arduino AVR Boards from the Arduino IDE menus.
2. Select Tools > Programmer from the Arduino IDE menus.
3. Note the order of the programmers in the menu.
4. Compare this to the order of occurrence of the name properties for each board definition in the platform's programmers.txt file:
   https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/1.8.4/programmers.txt

🙁 the Arduino IDE menu sort order does not match the order in programmers.txt

Describe the request

Sort Tools > Programmer menu according to the order in programmers.txt.

Desktop

• OS: Windows 10
• Version: 2.0.0-rc3-snapshot.759b410
  Date: 2022-01-31T13:15:29.574Z
  CLI Version: 0.20.2 [13783819]

Additional context

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Related:

• Custom board option menus not following the order sent by the cli #2036
• Sort Board menus as done in Arduino IDE 1.x #802
• Custom board options menu items not in order specified by boards.txt #801