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From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-05 21:01:27


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++.


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