[feature] Allow specifying deployer folder

[aiyolo]

What is your suggestion?

Currently, when specifying deployer folder, for example, runing the folloing comman

conan install . -s build_type=Debug --build=missing -d direct_deploy --deployer-folder third_party

the final deployer folder would be third_party/direct_deploy then the package folder.

It is better that removing the subdirectory direct_deploy, If users want to create that folder, they can use --deployer-folder third_party/direct_deploy instead.

Besides, I'd like that deployer folder can be set int the conf file.

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Thanks for your suggestion @aiyolo

The direct_deploy generator hardcodes the "direct_deploy" folder in its implementation:

def direct_deploy(graph, output_folder):
    """
    Deploys to output_folder a single package,
    """
    output_folder = os.path.join(output_folder, "direct_deploy")
    conanfile = graph.root.conanfile
    conanfile.output.info(f"Conan built-in pkg deployer to {output_folder}")

That means that the Conan --deployer-folder argument cannot avoid this in anyway.
Also, this cannot be changed because it would be breaking behavior for users that rely on this functionality.

There are 2 alternatives to achieve something like this:

• Do a mv command after the conan install with deployers
• Or provide your own deployer. Note that the deployers are intended to be mostly modular and user provided. The built-in deployers are there for convenience, but they do not aim to be a general solution for production for all users. This is the reason the deployers can be provided by users, and shared and distributed easily with conan config install/install-pkg.

Adding a specific conf to implement something that is basically a mv command would be too overkill.

[aiyolo]

Thanks for your reply. I have learnt how to implement a custom deployer.
How can I achieve this?

Do a mv command after the conan install with deployers

[memsharded]

Not sure what you mean, if you are implementing your custom deployer, you don't need to do a mv, you directly copy the files to the folder you want.

[memsharded]

Any further question or comment here?

This won't be planned at this moment, the recommended alternative would be to implement a user custom deployer.