Conan Inquiry

A way to search for Conan packages across the web, and view additional information about them. You can find it here.

Features

• Search results updated-as-you-type
• Packages from repositories outside conan-center
• Quick information about what is packaged (description, licenses, authors, links, code example, etc.)
• View README, the conanfile.py and more
• See packages wishes rankes by their popularity

Getting started

If you just want to report an error in an existing package or notify us about a missing package you can skip the steps below and head straight to reporting an issues.

This repository consist of three things:

• Static data files (conan_inquiry/data/packages)
• Scripts to find new packages, generate the full JSON file from the static data files and validate the result (conan_inquiry)
• A web interface using the generated JSON (conan_inquiry/data/web)

Workflow

When updating the list of packages the usual workflow is as follows:

1. Add at least one package for each fully new repository
2. Run mkdir build && cd build
3. Run python -m conan_inquiry find to find new packages
4. Run python -m conan_inquiry generate (see below for more information) to gather additional data and generate an aggregated package file
5. Run python -m conan_inquiry validate to find any missing fields (start from the top of the output)
   1. Fix all (otherwise you'll waste ratelimit resource) severe issues it reports
   2. Repeat (generate -> validate -> fix) until there are no more issues
6. Run python -m conan_inquiry wishlist to renew to wishlist data
7. Run python -m conan_inquiry server and open localhost:8000 in a browser
8. Run python -m conan_inquiry deploy to upload everything to a gh-pages branch

Prerequisites

You need to have Git and Python 3 installed. Then clone the project using git and install the dependencies using pip:

git clone https://github.com/Croydon/conan_inquiry
cd conan_inquiry
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 ve
source ve/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: It is highly recommended that you use a virtualenv.

Using the generator

In order to be able to test/use the web interface you need to run the generator.

Getting your access tokens

In order to be able to run the generator you need a couple of access tokens to different sites.

• Github client ID and secret from here
• Github token from here
• Bintray API key from here -> API Key
• Kitware GitLab token from here

Note: You currently need ALL of these in order to run the generator

Then put them in environment variables before running the generator:

• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
• GITHUB_TOKEN
• BINTRAY_API_KEY
• BINTRAY_USERNAME
• GITLAB_GITLAB_KITWARE_COM_TOKEN

Running the generator

mkdir build && cd build
python python -m conan_inquiry generate

Developing the web interface

Copy a generated packages.js to conan_inquiry/data/web and open index.html in your browser of choice.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.

Authors

• Jan Dalheimer - Initial work and maintainer

See also the list of contributors for everyone who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Everyone who has contributed to the Conan project
• Bincrafters, who have created many of the package recipes
• @PurpleBooth for the README template