Remove legacy Conan recipe and update documentation #8712
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Description
Motivation
The current Conan recipe kept in Flatbuffers was added by me 7 years ago (1f03bec) and now is deprecated, as it only works with Conan 1.x (see https://blog.conan.io/2024/09/30/Conan-Center-will-stop-receiving-updates-for-Conan-1.html). As for many other projects, the recommendation is to consume the Conan recipe from the official Conan Center, so maintainers don't need to worry about keeping recipes in their repositories and need some expert to fix it from time to time.
The documentation also explains how to install Flabuffers using Conan:
By default, Conan will try to download from Conan Center, and the pattern
[*]
means latest version available.