[question] Use of Release Candidate versioning in Conandata yml files

[iamastic]

What is your question?

Hello

When writing up a conandata.yml, how can we use or specify RC versions? For example, if I want to apply a particular patch to RC versions of a particular version,

sources:
  "1.0.0":
    url: "someprojectURL"
    tag: "4526537665"
patches:
  "1.0.0-*"
     - patch_file: "patches/somePatch.patch"

Is this possible? Can we use wild cards for referencing version numbers?

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @iamastic

Thanks for your question.

The data in conandata.yml can be arbitrary, can contain anything that a recipe wants, and the recipe can read it and use it as it wants.

A different story is the ConanCenter convention, that uses dictionaries over sources and patches with the keys are the exact versions being created.

If this is for your own private recipes or for your own private fork, you can probably define there a pattern or even a version range, and then in the recipe implement the check of that pattern against the current self.version with regex, fnmatch or check it with version ranges functionality, then apply the patch conditionally instead of the built-in "apply_conandata_patches()(something similar applies toexport_conandata_patches()``.