On 5/5/22 19:06, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
I gotta be honest, last year or two vcpkg "just works" and as far as I'm concerned C++ package management is a done deal.
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg#telemetry
vcpkg collects usage data in order to help us...
At this point I don't want to read about it anymore. It has become a habit of mine to be suspicious about Microsoft products, open source or not, because they embed their probes in every piece of software they release. I can understand the need for a package manager on Windows, since it essentially doesn't have an "official" one. But I never understood why I would want one on Linux (most flavors of it) since there already is one. I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand this initiative to pull a package manager into every programming language, including C++.