Conan package

[half2me]

Having the ability to install this via Conan would be awesome.
I starting working on a conanfile, but this is in no way complete. I was hoping someone with more experience could help me set this up, and it could be added to the project in the future?
I'll keep on working on this in the meantime...

[nunojpg]

I'm also doing some work on this. I hope I can provide a pull request this week for suggestions/improvements and also include the package generation on CI.

[ben-crowhurst]

@half2me if you're willing to maintain this entry we will welcome the inclusion.

Please place the file within a script folder as I have a feeling will see a flood of these.

Ok?

[nunojpg]

@half2me take a look at my implementation at https://github.com/nunojpg/conan-restbed

• I also did a ASIO package that this restbed package depends on. OpenSSL already existed and the rest we use the compile bundled dependencies.
• Currently conan build system is beta and the syntax had breaking changes for example this week. I would suggest to try to leave it stagging for some time, and when it becomes stable for a few months, maybe @ben-crowhurst can consider making the CI build to a Corvusoft channel on conan.io.

It would also be nice if we can make Windows CI to work. If not AppVeyor maybe using Visual Studio Team Services.

[half2me]

@nunojpg great idea. I have no experience with conan, so I doubt I'll be able to help much, I was mainly trying to give incentive :D

[nunojpg]

@ben-crowhurst as a side-effect of this conan packaging effort, restbed is compiling fine on Appveyor.

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nunojpg/conan-restbed

I don't know much about Windows builds or appveyor, so I can't understand what is causing the trouble with appveyor (#81).

What I can say is that I am using the absolute default cmake build, without any kind of hacks for windows.

[ben-crowhurst]

Is any further work required? Or should I just merge this PR?

[nunojpg]

This recipe is not compatible with Windows. For me is NOK. If you feel Conan is important (and eventually you'll will :)), then I can PR a much more complete recipe with continuos integrations builds. The problem is that you still have to create a Corvusoft channel and this package maintenance maybe should be offloaded to the community. One option is to leave it unofficial, the other is to create a repo and give some people commit privileges to it.

[ben-crowhurst]

A community led effort would be desirable. How do you want me to proceed?

[nunojpg]

I ask for more 1 week to further test my conan package implementation, and then I'll suggest a way forward.

[nunojpg]

Hi, sorry for the delay. Conan just changed their repository model and now provide very specific instructions on the recommended uniform packaging approach.

http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/packaging/bintray/conan_center_guide.html

They also provide some new quality requirements, and I don't meet them all yet.

So I need about 2 more weeks to get back to this. Then I suggest you fork my repository to make it Corvusoft "official" and for any future changes I'll pull request your repository.

[Croydon]

Conan has a new central repository for maintaining recipes and getting them into Conan Center (the official Conan repository)

I'm recommending to get a recipe for restbed in there: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/