The user may already be using conan and maybe, the default profile is incompatible with the needs of skbuild_conan.
Thus, it may be smart, not to use the default conan profile but create a separate skbuild_conan profile. When doing this, we could also allow to specify one explicitly. Note that users that need this usually would know how to work around problems, but would still be nice.
Additionally, one could think about allowing to specify a separate folder for installing the dependencies. This is not always a smart move because C++-dependencies can take a very long time to compile. In some cases, it may be useful if the installation fails and nobody knows why.
d-krupke
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1 year ago
The user may already be using conan and maybe, the default profile is incompatible with the needs of skbuild_conan. Thus, it may be smart, not to use the default conan profile but create a separate
skbuild_conanprofile. When doing this, we could also allow to specify one explicitly. Note that users that need this usually would know how to work around problems, but would still be nice.Additionally, one could think about allowing to specify a separate folder for installing the dependencies. This is not always a smart move because C++-dependencies can take a very long time to compile. In some cases, it may be useful if the installation fails and nobody knows why.