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Yes, pls, go on and tell us how it's a default package management tool for C/C++... It is a step forward, sure, but it's a far cry from Python's pip or Rust's

Yes, pls, go on and tell us how it's a default package management tool for C/C++... It is a step forward, sure, but it's a far cry from Python's pip or Rust's Cargo or even Dlang's dub.

einpoklum 7y ago
Python's PIP? Or do you mean Anaconda? Or VirtualEnv? Or Poetry, which someone here has pointed to? Also - you're moving the rhetorical goalpost. First you claimed there was no package management system, no you're complaining about the lack of default.
- foldr 7y ago
  Given that OP was talking about getting C/C++ packages "off a usenet archive", I think it's clear that they were talking about what coding C and C++ was like two or more decades ago.
  - Ensorceled 7y ago
    Exactly -- one of the blog posts on the page they link to has a "3 Month Anniversary Survey"
- netheril96 7y ago
  Technically he's wrong, and you are right, in that there are package management systems for C++. Practically, your being technically correct does not matter. No package management for C++ is popular enough for C++ programmers to avoid all the hardworks of manually managing packages, because there are always some (or most) packages you rely on not in these package management systems. pip, for all its shortcomings, does include almost all of the Python packages you ever need to use. That is a significant different in practice.