added support to create package alias #200

conan-io / conan-package-tools

Conan Package Tools. Helps with massive package creation and CI integration (Travis CI, Appveyor...)

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added support to create package alias #200 #504

Open boussaffawalid opened 4 years ago

boussaffawalid commented 4 years ago

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uilianries commented 4 years ago

@boussaffawalid Could you explain why do you need this feature?

boussaffawalid commented 4 years ago

I think it is very handy to provide an alias to the latest built package. In our ci we deduct the conan package version from the git commit sha, which create a new package version for every commit.

For example:

commit c1 will create a package pkg_name/1.0.0-c1@me/stable
commit c2 will create a package pkg_name/1.0.0-c2@me/stable .....

The idea is to have an alias package pkg_name/latest@me/stable that always point to the latest package.

What do you think ?