conan version¶
Warning
This feature is experimental and subject to breaking changes. See the Conan stability section for more information.
$ conan version -h
WARN: Downgrading cache from Conan 2.7.0 to 2.5.0
usage: conan version [-h] [-v [V]] [-cc CORE_CONF] [-f FORMAT]
Give information about the Conan client version.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v [V] Level of detail of the output. Valid options from less
verbose to more verbose: -vquiet, -verror, -vwarning,
-vnotice, -vstatus, -v or -vverbose, -vv or -vdebug,
-vvv or -vtrace
-cc CORE_CONF, --core-conf CORE_CONF
Define core configuration, overwriting global.conf
values. E.g.: -cc core:non_interactive=True
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
Select the output format: json
The conan version command shows information about the system and Python environment, including Conan version, Python version, system platform, architecture, release, CPU, and more:
version: The Conan version.
conan_path: The path to the Conan script.
- python: A sub-dictionary containing information about the Python environment, including:
version: The version of Python being used.
sys_version: The full Python system version.
sys_executable: The path to the Python executable.
is_frozen: An indicator of whether the Python script is being run as a frozen file (e.g., using py2exe or PyInstaller).
architecture: The architecture detected by Python.
- system: A sub-dictionary containing information about the operating system, including:
version: The version of the operating system.
platform: The platform of the system.
system: The name of the operating system.
release: The release version of the operating system.
cpu: Information about the system’s CPU.
$ conan version
version: 2.0.6
conan_path: /conan/venv/bin/conan
python
version: 3.10.4
sys_version: 3.10.4 (main, May 17 2022, 10:53:07) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3)]
sys_executable: /conan/venv/bin/python
is_frozen: False
architecture: arm64
system
version: Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:12:37 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6031
platform: macOS-14.4.1-arm64-arm-64bit
system: Darwin
release: 23.4.0
cpu: arm
The conan version --format=json returns a JSON output format in stdout
(which can be redirected to a file) with the following structure:
$ conan version --format=json
{
"version": "2.0.6",
"conan_path": "/Users/myUser/Documents/GitHub/conan/venv/bin/conan",
"python": {
"version": "3.10.4",
"sys_version": "3.10.4 (main, May 17 2022, 10:53:07) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3)]",
"sys_executable": "/conan/venv/bin/python",
"is_frozen": false,
"architecture": "arm64"
},
"system": {
"version": "Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:12:37 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6031",
"platform": "macOS-14.4.1-arm64-arm-64bit",
"system": "Darwin",
"release": "23.4.0",
"cpu": "arm"
}
}