On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 at 11:11, David Brown via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Some people do want a centralised source of C and/or C++ libraries and > other code, or other common repositories, as is found for a number of > other languages. Most C and C++ programmers, I think, understand that > this could only be of minor use, and only for some developers. I know > that for /my/ work, I would never consider a build system that tried to > pull in code or libraries from elsewhere. And I have never found a > build system that works better than "make" for my own uses. (Other > people have different needs and preferences.) > > It is also worth noting that people have been trying to make something > like this for decades - long before Rust was conceived. The only one > similar concept that has been successful has been boost.org.
I wouldn't ever bring up Boost in the context of successful build systems! conan.io and vcpkg seem more relevant to the topic.
