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C++ Package Manager
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Why not Conan? #10

Open masahikotsujita opened 3 years ago

masahikotsujita commented 3 years ago

WHY

WHAT

masahikotsujita commented 3 years ago

Simple vs Complex

Conan is (probably) one of the most popular C ++ package management systems today, as is Vcpkg, and one of C++'s most powerful choices. One of the features of Conan is that it is very flexible. Since all the build steps are written in Python scripts, you can probably do everything you want (or need to) in Conan. However, while Conan is very flexible, I find it very complex and difficult to understand for Python newcomers. For many C++ libraries, all you need to do is:

  1. Include the headers of the dependent libraries
  2. Build itself with MSBuild or CMake
  3. Also export your own headers and lib file

In this case, you don't really need complex configuration. So we wanted to keep the flexibility and make the steps needed in many cases simpler and easier to understand (simple YAML settings instead of complex Python scripts).