[CMake] CMake based package manager

Nicholas Braden nicholas11braden at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 14:26:26 EST 2016


Hh, sorry, I should have found that myself! This definitely looks
interesting, and I agree that not requiring an external program like
Biicode is a good idea. Thanks for sharing this, I will try it out
when I have time :)

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Nicholas Braden
> <nicholas11braden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't biicode already fill this role? Biicode seems to work well
>> enough for me, anyway.
>>
>
> Biicode is dead.
>
> There is a comparison with biicode here:
> https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/issues/54
>
> Having only CMake as a dependency is awesome!
>
> I have tried once to reuse biicode's OpenSSL CMake files, I failed. So I
> ended up
> using perl and whatever OpenSSL needed to compile.
>
> On the other hand hunter has only CMake as dependency, which means that its
> CMake scripts are very portable.
>
> Cheers,
> Cristian.
>
>


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