This episode is presented in English.
We chat with Diego Rodriguez-Losada about the C and C++ package manager Conan. Where did it come from, where is it going, the philosophy behind it (very, very pragmatic) and how Tobias has put it to use at Plex. We also move on to package managers and build systems in general. Also: the interesting topic of being magical versus not.
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Links Diego Conan Jfrog Pypi npm Maven biicode - a precursor, sort of, to Conan Modules in C++ - still under active discussion Cargo - the Rust package manager Conda - Python package manager Automake and autotools zlib qmake Youcompleteme pkg-config brew - package manager for macos Kristoffer’s talk on package managers RPM Nix and Nixos Electric fence YAML Conan Titles I was loooking for alternatives We decided to try again The perfect academic solution Usually it’s a bash script We know what kind of pain they go through The community won’t move We wanted to be hackable When I wrote my own dependency system A beautiful concept you can implement with generators We all hate the syntax of cmake Just an abuse of the system The full devops world has to change We know how to automate all the parts A mistake by design We are betting on that this is going to help us in the long run We had four build systems One of the reasons we wanted to switch is that it was horrible I remember the gnashing of teeth The pain is bigger than the investment Being very magical The magic eventually becomes a pain point I’m opposed to magic Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot The biggest gun to shoot yourself The domain was available