Manage remotes

[SSE4]

add dialog page to the conan options to manage remotes:

• list remotes
• add remotes
• remove remotes
• allow to specify remote for conan install

[solvingj]

I was tempted by this idea several times also. However, I came to believe these are actually the kinds of features that we should leave out of the extension for a long time, and possibly forever. I think they will become very time-consuming and difficult to support long-term, especially given the limited resources we have. I think we should leave GUI menus for any non-essential Conan operations out of scope. (I mean essential for visual studio project integration). I would like to build a systray-based application someday for that, but that's another topic.

[jdee]

I'd just like to be able to specify a -r option to the conan command via the extension. Otherwise in some cases I'm better off running conan install manually first to save time if I have binaries in my own remote that aren't in conan-center.

[jgsogo]

Hi! This issue has raised also for the CLion plugin (private messages). I'm wondering if these plugins/extensions should add some kind of proxy to Conan configuration (remotes, some typical config vars,...). And it always arises the alternative of having a different window to configure Conan (systray, exec, server,...) so it can we the same for VS, CLion, cmd,... but it wouldn't have a native UX. I'm on the fence with this, IMHO I think it is easy enough 😕

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@jdee, for your request, there are two approaches I can think about:

• adding an "install args" to configuration, like the CLion plugin does, but it is something that would apply to every project.

  

• Using something like this approach (https://github.com/conan-io/conan-vs-extension/issues/171) to override the install command