cps

CPS[1] is where all the effort is currently going for a C++ packaging standard, CMake shipped it in 4.3 and Meson is working on it. Pkgconf maintainer said they have vague plans to support at some point. There's no current effort to standardize what a package registry is or how build frontends and backends communicate (a la PEP 517/518), though its a constant topic of discussion. [1]: https://github.com/cps-org/cps

> find_package often just ends up using pkg-config find_package() is just a souped-up include(). What happens once it finds the script matching the criteria provided by arguments and cache variables depends entirely on the script(s) (plural, because version criterion is satisfied by the *ConfigVersion.cmake script for config mode search) it runs. The PkgConfig module is only mentioned in a couple of CMake provided find modules: >find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "Find*.cmake" -not -name FindPkgConfig.cmake -exec ugrep -HFe PkgConfig {} + | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq | sed s/..//;s/\.cmake// FindBLAS FindCURL FindCurses FindEXPAT FindFontconfig FindGLUT FindGSL FindGnuTLS FindImageMagick FindLAPACK FindLibXml2 FindLibXslt FindLibinput FindMPI FindOpenSP FindOpenSSL The preva