TEtepidandroid·Aug 6, 2019Submission
Support for Hunter C++ package manager ending without Patreon support
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10 sourcesHunter C++ package manager in need of donations
3 points · Open discussionIt was discussed for Meson when they included the "subproject" support as major issue for all the GNOME components for most linux distributions.
There is some note here
https://mesonbuild.com/Subprojects.html
or here
https://blogs.gnome.org/ignatenko/2015/05/21/meson-and-3rd-p...
Or more recently with Bazel that do the same but arrives to do it much worst:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6210
or
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/how_to_make_p...
Same with Hunter and CMake External:
https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/issues/296
I have managed an ecosystem of ~250 software for a team in the past.
Software bundling their dependencies are the worst and any package manager will tell you that.
Due to diamond dependency problem, they explode as soon as you try to integrate them into a bigger picture... It is a pure wast
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e of time for every packager.
And I am not even speaking of bug fixes update on dependencies, security update, environment without Internet access or anything like that.... because dependency bundling prevent or make hard all of that.
Interesting.
I've been messing for a while with my own boilerplate C++ project [0], since I got sick of having to recreate the CMake set up for every app I created. It's taken a lot of CMake magic to get it working and I'm still not totally happy with the config using ExternalProject_add to automagically deal with dependencies that aren't present.
I've been evaluating Hunter [1] and wondering whether to step over.
If I understand correctly, the big advantage of Bake is that it completely replaces CMake for dependency management (at least that's what I take away from the readme)?
[0] https://github.com/kartikkumar/cppbase
[1] https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
In Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++Hunter: CMake driven cross-platform package manager for C/C++
2 points · Open discussionHunter allows this using the HUNTER_DISABLED flag. https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
In Modern CMake short tutorial and best practiceCheck out https://github.com/ruslo/hunter for a fantastic CMake package manager built to solve this issue.
In Modern CMake short tutorial and best practiceThere's also CMake hunter, which covers the same problem space: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter, with no external dependency on python packages.
In Cget: cmake package retrievalHunter: Cross-platform package manager for C++
1 points · Open discussionYou might like to try Hunter: https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
Cross-platform C++ package management using CMake only.
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