Buildbot vs Conan: What are the differences?
Developers describe Buildbot as "Python-based continuous integration testing framework". BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. On the other hand, Conan is detailed as "C/C++ package manager". Install or build your own packages for any platform. Conan also allows you to run your own server easily from the command line.
Buildbot and Conan are primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" and "Hosted Package Repository" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
On the other hand, Conan provides the following key features:
- Dependencies and package management for developers
- De-centralized
- Source code and binaries
Buildbot and Conan are both open source tools. It seems that Buildbot with 4K GitHub stars and 1.37K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Conan with 2.94K GitHub stars and 384 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Buildbot has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to Conan, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
