Support for Conan feeds/packages

[arno]

I'd love to see support for Conan, the C/C++ package manager.
Our company mainly works on embedded software (which is where Conan comes in to play), but we also develop some accompanying desktop apps every now and then using C# (for which we want to have a NuGet feed).

There is an open source implementation of a Conan server available and both Artifactory and Sonatype (via an open source plugin) have support for these kind of packages/feeds.

[apxltd]

Hi Arno,

Are you actually using Conan?

I've talked with a lot of users over the years about C/C++ development, and the emergence of Conan, and after a careful evaluation, not a single user opted to not use it due to the complexity it adds. Some instead switched to NuGet (which supports C++), and others just use UPack / Universal Packages.

So far as I can tell (I'm not a C/C++ developer), the big challenge is that Conan "wants to be" a cross-platform open source hub (like the NuGet.org of C/C++), but C/C++ isn't cross-platform, and there's no real standardization in how you configure C/C++ project, so the Conan platform has to jump through a lot of hoops to make it work.

From my understanding, you need to make "recipes" that are like a kind of installation script, and these are written in Python (??), and executed using Bash. So, on Windows, that many more steps to follow.

Another problem I heard was development environments vs target environments. Like how you can code on Windows, but your target is embedded something, so it adds a whole new layer of complexity. I also remember something about, building from source vs libraries, and how it was a lot of work to get it to work the way you want.

Our customers had zero interest in taking open source packages from the Conan's public repository; it was only for their own, internal-use packages.

Again... this is all second-hand for me, so, if you have more insight please add it.

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