[workspaces] Consumer (conanfile.txt) as root of workspace

[ezaiakinsc]

Current Workspace feature does not support conan "final consumer project" (configured by conanfile.txt) to be root of the workspace - it requires root to be full-featured package reference. As temp hack, we converted our conanfile.txt into conanfile.py with dummy names and versions, but we are not sure how safe such a solution is - do we have to keep those dummy names and version unique? Since those represent "final consuming projects", we do not have any reasonable names or versions for those - they are not supposed to go back into conan package.

If it is possible, please support conanfile.txt as root node of the workspace.

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• I've specified the Conan version, operating system version and any tool that can be relevant.
• I've explained the steps to reproduce the error or the motivation/use case of the question/suggestion.

[lasote]

Thanks for reporting. Looks like a missing feature. I think you will be safe from now converting to the conanfile.py.

[memsharded]

Workspaces were removed in 2.0, but the plan is to resume work on them in the 2.X roadmap.
Please track progress in #12466, closing this