Conan for simplifing dependency management

[redradist]

OpenVINO has lots of packages as requirements and it could make it harder to install OpenVINO toolkit and use it out of the box

Consider to use Conan for simplifying dependency management

[jgespino]

Hi @redradist

OpenVINO has support for various intallation methods like APT, PIP, Docker, YUM and Conda. Take a look at the installation methods on the left menu in the Linux installation guide for OpenVINO toolkit.

Have you considered using one of these methods?

Regards,
Jesus

[redradist]

@jgespino Yes, it is okay for me, but conan could make this process more friendly ...
Actually, if you will decide to go in this direction I can help with writing conan receipt for OpenVINO

[jgespino]

I will pass this information to the development team for consideration. We encourage developers to submit their contributions as pull requests to the OpenVINO GitHub project.

Regards,
Jesus

Ref. 63659

[ryanloney]

@redradist Hi Denis,

This is a good suggestion. Can you describe what is needed for us to implement? Could conan leverage the openvino GitHub repo? What engineering, validation or devops work is required to use conan?

Thanks,

Ryan

[redradist]

@ryanloney It is needed to create conan-center-index receipt for example like this one conan-io/conan-center-index#6083

Validation is run on ConanCenter CI

The purpose of receipt is to create a set of commands that can build the OpenVINO. Then installing of OpenVINO on customer machine would be as simple as:

conan install openvino/2021.4@intel/stable

[redradist]

Here is suggestion how to do it from conan community conan-io/conan-center-index#7277

[ryanloney]

Thanks @redradist. I am requesting a proof of concept internally.

[xandox]

Hello. Any news here?

[ilya-lavrenov]

@redradist could you help to review #14930 ?

[akladiev]

This issue will be closed in 2 weeks in case of no activity.

[ilya-lavrenov]

In current PR we have added OpenVINO building using conanfile.txt as a dependency list. Documentation how to do it, will be added in next PRs.

Next steps is to take such files as a dependency list and create complete conanfile.py for conan-center-index submission.

[avitial]

Ref. CVS-104994

[ilya-lavrenov]

Current Conan config file https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/blob/master/conanfile.txt is mature enough to say that we support dependencies from CCI.
Adding OpenVINO to CCI is tracked separately.

[ilya-lavrenov]

OpenVINO is finally added to Conan Center Index ㊗️
https://conan.io/center/recipes/openvino?version=2023.1.0