[request] PDBs for <boost>/1.77

[shreyasr89]

As of now I see that the latest boost version is boost/1.77.
We want to have also the symbols (pdbs) of this package asap with the next version.

[madebr]

Missing pdb's has always been a problem with this repo.
See #1982 for the earliest issue.

This needs conan support to let users opt in into pdb creation.

@jgsogo @uilianries @SSE4
Maybe/probably you have more knowledge about future conan pdb plans?
Perhaps layout can be used to handle this? Perhaps adding a conf variable to the profile?

[shreyasr89]

Why not just add another 'pdb' option to atleast support this?? or in the same way as other supported options, without_pdb can be defaulted to False.

[madebr]

Adding pdb options to all recipes does not scale.
After all, providing and handling pdb's is something that the package manager should support on a global scale.
It is not something that should be handled in a recipe per recipe base.

In other words, needing a pdb related option is a xy problem.

[shreyasr89]

Yeah makes sense.

[madebr]

When/if pdb support drops in conan, we will have to modify a lot of recipes.
But the behavior/implementation will be uniform across all.

[prince-chrismc]

FAQs has some more info too https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/docs/faqs.md#why-pdb-files-are-not-allowed

[uilianries]

Closing as PDB files are not distributed by CCI.

You can try locally copying to the metadata folder or even bin folder.

https://blog.conan.io/2023/10/24/Conan-launches-metadata-files.html