[question] Is it safe to use self.package_path? ?

[uilianries]

Related to conan-io/docs#2753

The self.package_path is not documented but looks stable and it uses Path library, which is easier than os.path usage.

/cc @jellespijker

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

[memsharded]

After syncing with the team, we are going to deprecate this.
Even if it is slightly more convenient for some users there are some downsides:

• it is ugly for an api to have duplicated things, it can be confusing for users
• The api inputs cannot be Path objects in general, as Conan internally uses old-style paths
• This cannot be changed, it would be breaking. It can be "fixed" and add adaptors in the definition points, but this surely be fragile and require time to polish, creating some instability.
• Users might have issues if they obtain Path objects via the Conan interface, but Conan failing when passing those objects as inputs.

As this was never really documented, it will be marked for deprecation and removed in few releases. Users wanting to use Path in their recipes can perfectly do Path(self.xxxx_folder), it is very simple and explicit in the recipe.