{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan/issues/2861","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan/issues/2861/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan/issues/2861/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan/issues/2861/events","html_url":"https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/2861","id":320749094,"number":2861,"title":"[question] Is it possible to use the compiler name as a setting, but not its version?","user":{"login":"Adnn","id":3911163,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/3911163?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn","html_url":"https://github.com/Adnn","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Adnn/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":293864766,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/conan-io/conan/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c","default":true}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2018-05-07T10:11:48Z","updated_at":"2018-05-07T12:28:48Z","closed_at":"2018-05-07T12:28:48Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"We are developing an application depending on a 3rd party prebuilt binary.\r\nAs our workflow may move toward Conan, currently using 1.2 on OSX and Windows, we packaged it [following the doc](http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/creating_packages/existing_binaries.html). Yet we realized that when we use `compiler` in the settings list, not only a change in compiler name (gcc, clang, ...) will make the package \"not found\", but also a change in its version.\r\n\r\nWe would like to actually use the same prebuilt binary for the few version of our given compilers that our build supports. Is it possible with Conan current settings system?\r\n\r\n- [x] I've read the [CONTRIBUTING guide](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/conan-io/conan/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).\r\n- [x] I've specified the Conan version, operating system version and any tool that can be relevant.\r\n- [x] I've explained the steps to reproduce the error or the motivation/use case of the question/suggestion.\r\n\r\n"}}
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