I work in a software house and we use conan to install libraries (third parties and even the ones we developed inside the team) in our development machines.
As you may know the Bintray repository was shut down from last May. Now I wonder:
- Do conan center offer some kind of long term support on the packages it hosts?
- Do you distribute libraries from conan repository or do you upload libraries in your own private repository so that you are not affected by repository being shutting down?
Thank you.
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Do conan center offer some kind of long term support on the packages it hosts?
Yes. Conan Center didn't change and won't, the official packages are still there.
However, official new packages must be added by Conan Center Index
Do you distribute libraries from conan repository or do you upload libraries in your own private repository so that you are not affected by repository being shutting down?
Conan Center Index uploads their packages (which contain built libraries) to an Artifactory instance. The same server provides those packages for all users.
In summary, nothing changed for package consumers. However, if you used to provide Conan packages through Bintray, now you should use Artifactory Cloud (Free version), or even, you can install a local Artifactory instance (also free) and use it for distribution.
Please, read the official Blog post related to Bintray Sunset for more information:
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