Conan and Vcpkg packages are out of date

[tcbrindle]

Both the Conan and Vcpkg Flux packages are git snapshots from some time ago.

It would be great to get these updated for the new Flux release.

[tcbrindle]

(I guess this is only a "good first issue" if you're already familiar with Conan or Vcpkg, but...)

[Sid911]

@tcbrindle Hi, I am also trying to get newer version of flux to xrepo (atleast for time being my own xrepo then to official one). I do have a question. Will the tags be now kept as is? I can't find release tags before 0.4.0. The previous version for xrepo is for commit 8434e8e0fd131cebc3aed0d845530335bf7fb5e1 tagged 2023.08.17 which is similar to vcpkg and connan which have the clang 18 crash issue present (wouldn't be a big deal but I am using intel icx toolchain which has clang 18 frontend prior fix) .

If the tags releases will be kept as, is it would be easier to write versions and depend on them.

[tcbrindle]

Hi @Sid911,

Will the tags be now kept as is? I can't find release tags before 0.4.0

Yes, the tags will be kept as-is from now on. Future releases of Flux will use semantic versioning, tagged appropriately. (0.4.0 was the first "official" numbered release).

I hope this helps, thanks for helping to get Flux packaged

[SidneyCogdill]

For conan it appears only minimal efforts are required to add version 0.4.0 to the recipe:

config.yml:

  versions:
+  "0.4.0":
+    folder: all
    "cci.20240115":
      folder: all

all/conandata.yml:

   sources:
+   "0.4.0":
+     url: "https://codeload.github.com/tcbrindle/flux/zip/43c09af5cc2e89e32b98ddc3507247f593ec2642"
+     sha256: "9d8891b2ab9f826b301678b17011d48ab6c85e534e065f66269ae08537be68d5"
    "cci.20240115":
      url: "https://codeload.github.com/tcbrindle/flux/zip/e942a678ed3b46c7f7ffeebe47eed5c5bec005b2"
      sha256: "3832fb160417d14cfb3636c8edab04b2d0cd6c230b4d474a18bb1389fa1c3b8f"

I've tried this on my local system and it builds correctly and flux works. Need someone to submit that to conan center index. Who's maintaining flux package for conan?

[SidneyCogdill]

ping @valgur (original PR)

[tcbrindle]

The Conan update looks like it has propagated through (https://conan.io/center/recipes/flux?version=0.4.0), thanks very much @SidneyCogdill!

[SidneyCogdill]

Conan Center current has some issues that can cause users to miss v0.4.0: https://github.com/conan-io/web/issues/187

Therefore it might be helpful to directly mention conan tutorials in README.md:

conan remote update --url https://center2.conan.io conancenter

[requires]
flux/0.4.0
[generators]
CMakeDeps
CMakeToolchain
[layout]
cmake_layout

and warn that flux/[*] wildcard will miss the latest version due to the cci name.

and also add a direct link to the latest version https://conan.io/center/recipes/flux?version=0.4.0

[tcbrindle]

The vcpkg package has now been updated as well, thanks again @SidneyCogdill!