conan-app-launcher 1.1.0

App Launcher and Package Explorer for Conan

Conan App Launcher and Local Package Explorer

Quick Overview

The goal of this project is to provide a frontend to start executables contained in packages of the package manager Conan. It also contains a local package explorer view, which is handy on Windows to browse short paths annd navigate quickly.

It is more end-user oriented and focuses on using packages. It can be used on Windows and Linux x64 platforms.

Application Link Grid:

Local Package Manager:

Main Features

• compatible with a wide range of conan versions (from 1.24 onwards)
• integrated console for information an packages and config file
• installable with pip

App Grid:

• configurable layout (tabs and applications) in the GUI
• can also open files with their associated default program
• installs all referenced packages automatically
• automatic conan settings resolution for your platform
• uses the default icons of files or can be configured to use custom ones
• quick controls to switch between versions and channels

Local Package Explorer:

• view for browsing through installed packages
• understand package settings at a glance from a shortened representation, e.g. Linux_x64_ggc7
• supports copy/paste on file, open in file explorer, copy reference, etc. functions which are often needed in daily Conan workflow

How to install?

Prequisites on Linux

Qt for Python must be installed with the native package manager, like:

sudo apt install python3-pyqt5

Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported due to its native Python version (3.5).

With pip from PyPi

pip install conan-app-launcher

From source

After checkout use the command: pip install .

Running

Execute conan-app-launcher, if the Python "scripts" folder is on your system path, or look it up manually in the site-packages folder. You can also assign its icon to it from the site packages folder in conan_app_launcher/assets/icons/icon.ico.

Main dependencies

• PyQt5 >= 5.13.0
• conan >= 1.24.0

Toolchain

This project uses Python with Qt as a frontend using the PyQt integration. An IDE configuration is available for VsCode.

Licenses of used libraries and code

Resources

• Using icons by https://icons8.com under Universal Multimedia Licensing Agreement for Icons8
• Using Conan Package Manager Icon by Conan.io developers under MIT License, via Wikimedia Commons

PyPi runtime dependencies

• PyQt5 by Riverbank Computing Limited, GPLv3
• Conan by JFrog LTD under GPLv3
• jsonschema by Julian Berman under MIT License

PyPi backports for older Python versions

• importlib-metadata by Jason R. Coombs under Apache License 2.0
• typing-extensions by Guido van Rossum, Jukka Lehtosalo, Łukasz Langa, Michael Lee under Python Software Foundation License(PSF)
• dataclasses by Eric V. Smith under Apache License 2.0 'dataclasses>=0.8 ; python_version<"3.7"' # Apache Software License (Apache)