From 25da978fee0a0c9359f3f5c52818b126ecfe6fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Kravets <me@ikravets.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:07:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for "author" field in library.json manifest //
 Resolve #1055

---
 platformio/managers/lib.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/platformio/managers/lib.py b/platformio/managers/lib.py
index 75abbadb..ad3197a4 100644
--- a/platformio/managers/lib.py
+++ b/platformio/managers/lib.py
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ class LibraryManager(BasePkgManager):
             del manifest['sentence']
 
         if "author" in manifest:
-            manifest['authors'] = [{"name": manifest['author']}]
+            if isinstance(manifest['author'], dict):
+                manifest['authors'] = [manifest['author']]
+            else:
+                manifest['authors'] = [{"name": manifest['author']}]
             del manifest['author']
 
         if "authors" in manifest and not isinstance(manifest['authors'], list):