[feature] Generate a post-install report after "conan install"

Hi,

I’m using the command conan install to install external packages and generate an --installer-folder.

I need a way to determine how many packages were Downloaded/Cached/Built during the conan install process.

Maybe if there was a new flag --packages-report or --packages-report-json, like:

conan install --packages-report --install-folder ./install_folder  ...
# Generates the JSON file ./install_folder/conanpackagesreport.json

And the expected content would be something like this

./install_folder/conanpackagesreport.json

{
    "summary": {
        "built": 2,
        "from_cache": 4,
        "downloaded": 2
    }
    ... // Add additional meaningful data here
}

@memsharded I’m totally in for developing this feature by myself, though I want to make sure you’ll approve it when the day comes … What do you think?

• Conan version - 1.49.0
• OS: Any
• I’ve read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[memsharded]

Regarding the use in production, I assume you refer to “make it Highly available” (as I mentioned earlier) though I can’t find a way to make it highly available “for free”, see the docs:

Yes, you are totally right, the HA feature of Artifactory is a paid, one, I was confused by the OSS, and I thought it could be the conan_server

So getting back to the original issue, I’ll play with the existing --json report a bit more, I think it’ll answer my needs, closing this ticket.

Great. Let us know how it goes, I hope you can make it work.

@memsharded Thank you for your support, I’m using Conan at my workplace all over the place, and building for almost any platform - macOS, iOS, android-armv8, Linux, Windows (was a major challenge), Web Assembly (WASM, not even sure it’s possible with Conan). I would love to have a chat with you about it, to give you the perspective of a company that dropped VCPKG and moved to Conan, I have a feeling it will be fruitful for both of us. Let me know if you want to peer about it; Either way, thank you!

Sure, I am definitely willing to learn from your experience, please feel free to send an email to [e-mail], and we can take it from there. Cheers!

[unfor19]

I guess I’m using Artifactory CE -

Regarding the use in production, I assume you refer to “make it Highly available” (as I mentioned earlier) though I can’t find a way to make it highly available “for free”, see the docs:

Licensing Artifactory HA is supported with an Enterprise License. Each node in the cluster must be activated with a different license. Before adding any additional node, please add each additional node’s license using the node that is already running. source

But that’s another topic and I don’t want to spam you with questions about it over here 😃

So getting back to the original issue, I’ll play with the existing --json report a bit more, I think it’ll answer my needs, closing this ticket.

@memsharded Thank you for your support, I’m using Conan at my workplace all over the place, and building for almost any platform - macOS, iOS, android-armv8, Linux, Windows (was a major challenge), Web Assembly (WASM, not even sure it’s possible with Conan). I would love to have a chat with you about it, to give you the perspective of a company that dropped VCPKG and moved to Conan, I have a feeling it will be fruitful for both of us. Let me know if you want to peer about it; Either way, thank you!