I was playing around with this idea [0], much to the dismay of colleagues, until I discovered that CMake's ExternalProject module could do everything my "packag

I was playing around with this idea [0], much to the dismay of colleagues, until I discovered that CMake's ExternalProject module could do everything my "package manager" could do. I was pretty close to making the package manager self hosting, too... I think it doesn't actually matter if dependencies are statically linked or dynamically linked, just as long as they are not installed globally, and shared between non homogenous processes. [0] https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/picodeps https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/picodeps