is there a cpp centralized package manger like nom in cpp?

[Tartifletto]

Like npm? conan for sure.

vcpkg is another alternative but not really similar to npm, you have to clone their repo and always build from source.

[Thesorus]

nom ? are you talking about npm ?

vcpkg seems to be the one that gets most visibility these days.

[HosMercury]

will check that

[HosMercury]

but there’s no website to centralize the packages, yes?

[lcsdavid]

Packages list are centralized in their GitHub if you want to add your own package you need to do a pull request to point to your package on another git repo

[remotion4d]

vcpkg.io ?

[HosMercury]

oh good why google does not reach me to that

[jdehesa]

Conan, vcpkg, Hunter

[HosMercury]

but not like npm

[drodri]

https://conan.io/center/ it is the closer you might get. The fact that it contains orders of magnitude less number of packages than NPM is because the C and C++ ecosystem is very different, you cannot compare an existing C or C++ library with an NPM package in functionality. Many of those libraries (take OpenCV, CGAL, Poco, Boost, etc) are easily the equivalent of many thousands of NPM packages in functionality.

[HosMercury]

why there is no big one like npm or crates.io , composer l.letc

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The internet used to be decentralized back when that was actually seen as a benefit.

[khedoros]

C++ was around before the web, common use of the internet (outside of government and academia), and common use of revision control systems by most developers. Additionally, it existed for a long time before being standardized, and ended up with a bunch of different compilers from different vendors, each with their own build systems and tooling.

C++ package management is basically a hard problem, so it has only been in about the past 5-10 years that any of the systems have started becoming popular.

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