We would like to ensure that developers can debug production Windows software published internally using Conan.

We understand how we could publish libraries used in building our executable up to Conan and our pdb files separately to a symbol server accessible to VisualStudio.

However, given space constraints, we must manage the garbage collection of old library builds once we become certain they are no longer needed.

If we store .pdb files to a separate symbol server, then whatever lifecycle and deprecation management we decide on for Conan packages must be duplicated for the management of the symbol server pdbs.

If instead we could simply publish the pdb and lib files in the same Conan package, publish them to Artifactory and aim Visual Studio at the artifactory conan repo as a Symbol Server, we could manage those artifacts together.

Can we please request a Conan/Artifactory integration enhancement that would allow .pdb files published within Conan packages to be transparently available as if it were a Symbol Server, using the usual hash query mechanism implemented by Symbol Servers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419347/microsoft-symbol-server-local-cache-hash-algorithm ?

I have raised: https://www.jfrog.com/jira/browse/RTFACT-18260 in the Artifactory JIRA.

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