KDE Frameworks in Conan.io (et al.)?

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Luiz Romário Santana Rios
<luizromario at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I don't know if this has been discussed already, but I think it would
> be interesting to have some Frameworks available on Conan.io[1]. Conan
> is a package manager, much similar to Rust's Cargo or Python's pip,
> except it's distributed. Inqlude[2] has something more or less in the
> same vein, but the advantage of Conan in this case is that the
> developer wouldn't be restricted to Qt-only libraries, which would be
> very useful for cases where the application only uses one or maybe two
> frameworks. I'm cautiously confident that it would boost the adoption
> of KDE frameworks by "casual" users.
>
> Since Conan is distributed, I think it's possible to provide a KDE
> Conan server to host the frameworks. Alternatively, which should be
> easier, we could just upload some frameworks and their dependencies to
> Conan.io and see if it works.
>
> I'll try to setup a KArchive conan package myself and either setup a
> server myself or upload the package to Conan. I'm not promising
> anything, but I'll be back later if I have any interesting results.
> I'll also be looking at alternative systems like cget[3], et al..
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> [1]: https://www.conan.io/
> [2]: https://inqlude.org/get.html
> [3]: https://github.com/pfultz2/cget

I have no idea who/if anyone uses conan.io. If they do it could be
interesting to be there. Do you know if there's any projects that
would have used KF5 if it had been there?

Aleix