Migrating once bintray sunset?

[NolanC33]

Happy Monday,

It appears that bintray is getting sunset:

Will you be uploading the build artifacts to a different location?

Thanks.

[NolanC33]

I was thinking I may and try and contribute it to conan center. https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/docs/how_to_add_packages.md

[Chrismarsh]

Yes, bintray being sunset has been a major pain for me. I maintain these conan-* to support the development of a numerical model.

Currently I work around this by building everything locally:
https://github.com/Chrismarsh/CHM/blob/master/conan_export_deps.sh
but this is useless for CI testing.

I am in the process of getting some cloud infrastructure to host Artifactory, but that's probably next-week at the earliest.

In passing I have thought about contributing to conan-centre, but I don't have the time to take on even more of a support burden. It's unclear to me how much extra of a support burden this would entail.

[NolanC33]

Gotcha. If its alright with you, I was thinking I'd give it a shot. Basically I think I would be copy pasting this repo into https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/recipes , with minor adjustments. Note that I'm a complete conan noob so it wouldn't happen overnight.

[Chrismarsh]

Please, feel free to contribute to conan-centre based off this! I've added a MIT license to both master and the stable/2.x branch just to make it simple for you.

If you could let me know how it goes that would be great.

[NolanC33]

Awesome, will do 👍

[NolanC33]

Working on it here conan-io/conan-center-index#6098

[Croydon]

@Chrismarsh Do you need specific builds that CCI is not generating? Otherwise maintaining own infrastructure and builds has probably no advantages 🤔

[Chrismarsh]

@Croydon The numerical model I develop (linked above) is standard scientific-code fare in that it requires specific (some esoteric) dependencies at specific revisions with specific build flags. A bunch are built generically, e.g., this one. A few are quite specific to my needs, e.g., my conan-gdal (https://github.com/Chrismarsh/conan-gdal/blob/stable/gdal3/conanfile.py#L114) where I don't include the vast majority of geospatial drivers as my code doesn't need it.

I agree that maintaining my own infrastructure and builds is deeply sub-optimal. When bintray existed, it was a simple solution -- customized builds -> upload to bintray. And it Just Worked (tm). Now I am in the awkward position of that not working.

I was unsure how difficult it was to contribute to CCI the more general builds, and I'd already lost so much time to this I wasn't interested in taking it on as Yet Another Thing. E.g., who is responsible for updating the build scripts to include new versions of a library?

If CCI could include the generic libraries, that would of course be ideal. Are you associated with CCI? Do you have a sense to this?

[Croydon]

I'm one of the official community reviewers of CCI and I'm also part of Bincrafters.

Many questions are answered in the docs: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/docs/

E.g., who is responsible for updating the build scripts to include new versions of a library?

Anyone / nobody / the community. Whoever is motivated to create pull requests.

I think you might also be interested in a feature like this: bincrafters/community#1383
E.g. having the recipe completely in CCI and if you need builds which are not generated by CCI then build them on your own CI and upload the builds to your own Conan remote.

[NolanC33]

Working on it here conan-io/conan-center-index#6098

Merged :)