Add a Conan datasource

[jjcaballero]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

I want to be able to use Renovate to keep Conan dependencies updated. With the help of the regex package manager and the big variety of versioning schemes, the only missing piece is a datasource compatible with a Conan registry. Somehow also mentioned in #5933 which targets to cover Conan package manager.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

A simple datasource that would return the content of a specific path in the registry can work.

<registryUrl>/<lookUpName>
     |--- 1.0.0
     |--- 1.0.1

Considering a tree directory as above and assuming that the version of the specific package can be extracted from its folder name, then the minimal functionality of a datasource can be implemented. In the above scenario, the getReleases method of the datasource should return 1.0.0 and 1.0.1.
In my company, we use Artifactory to store the conan packages and with the above approach, we have been using for a while a Renovate fork to monitor projects with conan packages.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

Yes

[M0r13n]

@jjcaballero This would be a great improvement for renovate. Do you expect your changes to be publicly available soon?

[jjcaballero]

@M0r13n, The PR (#11602) adds Artifactory registry as datasource. This should be enough to work with conan packages. The PR is ready, I addressed all comments in the PR more than 10 days ago. Unfortunately, it still needs approval from one reviewer.

[M0r13n]

@jjcaballero That's really great news. Looking forward for this to be merged.

Thanks for your great work!

[renovate-release]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 27.25.0 🎉

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• 27.25.0

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