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A Rust wrapper of the conan C/C++ package manager (conan.io) to simplify usage in build scripts
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Are contributions still welcome? #16

Closed Tomcat-42 closed 11 months ago

Tomcat-42 commented 11 months ago

First, great library!!!

What is the state of this project? It is still maintaned?

Cheers :partying_face: , Pablo.

awakecoding commented 11 months ago

I have to admit we haven't giving it much love recently and that I somehow missed a few open pull requests, but let me get that fixed. The project has pretty much been doing what we need it to for a while, so we mostly see incremental improvements being contributed as people use it in different ways

ravenexp commented 11 months ago

The project has pretty much been doing what we need it to for a while, so we mostly see incremental improvements being contributed as people use it in different ways

BTW, I was working on Conan 2.0 support for conan-rs in the meantime, but as my smaller PRs took so long to review I basically decided to start from scratch and this is the result: https://github.com/ravenexp/conan2-rs. It is not a fork of conan-rs, but rather an independent implementation.

This is not an advertisement, conan-rs served me well for years, but then I had a hard requirement to switch to Conan 2.0 in a short time frame. I hope that my work will be useful for someone.

Tomcat-42 commented 11 months ago

The project has pretty much been doing what we need it to for a while, so we mostly see incremental improvements being contributed as people use it in different ways

Sure, it's already a great lib @awakecoding , thanks!!! In my use case I would need conan to build a cpp legacy project, so then after I could use the generated libs in my Rust code. Do you think this feature is in the scope of conan-rs?

Tomcat-42 commented 11 months ago

This is not an advertisement, conan-rs served me well for years, but then I had a hard requirement to switch to Conan 2.0 in a short time frame. I hope that my work will be useful for someone.

I liked the API of conan2-rs. It almost made me switch the old cpp project that I'm working to conan2 prior to it's Rust integration.

awakecoding commented 11 months ago

@Tomcat-42 let me know what you need to revive this project, and make a new release published in crates.io (it's been a while). Are there other improvements you'd need to submit from conan2-rs?

Tomcat-42 commented 11 months ago

I think the main improvement will be the ability to run builds from conan.

I'm biased because that's exacly my use case, but a lot of people use conan like this:

conan install . <ARGS> && conan build .

So IMO this will be of good use for the general user base.