Open DenizThatMenace opened 1 week ago
@DenizThatMenace Hello and thank you for communicating your scenario.
Unfortunately we can not change the directory structure as the CI service is very dependent of that folder tree, and adding one level will require several changes in the CI code.
Indeed I understand your case, as I use the Github web to see recipes too and we have this limit of 1000 files, but we are not alone, as it's affecting other projects too. Doing a quick search I found this discussion to Github Comunity: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/21480
As suggestion, I would recommend jumping to the recipe directly, e.g boost: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/recipes/boost
What is your problem/feature request?
The
recipes
directory contains recipes for more than 1700 libraries. As a result it also directly contains this amount of directories; one directory per library. Sadly, these directories are in a flat hierarchy so that Github hits an upper limit of directories it can display. It shows the following error-message when trying to show therecipes
directory via Github's Web-UI:As a consequence I need to
git clone
this repository in order to see the list of all libraries.Would it be possible to instead create an intermediate level of directories with a directory per starting-letter? For example:
Further questions are:
conan
utility and other resources (e.g. https://conan.io/center)?I suggest, that now would be a good time to make such a change, because the backwards-compatibility of recipes will already start to decrease due to dropping support for Conan 1 (see #25461), so that this change could be adopted for a "Conan 2 only" recipe repository.