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Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go by frankzinger on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:05AM (#16685413)
Which C++ projects have "mega dependencies"? There is no technical reason to have those (or any other kind of dependency management problems, for that matter). I'm not sure what it's like on Windows, but most other OSes support all of the major C++ dependencies in their default package managers (or things like MacPorts on Mac OS) and it's not difficult to install anything else manually.
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Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go by pjmlp on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:20AM (#16687560)
I think he/she means something like boost or Qt.

On Windows, Microsoft is investing on vcpkg as package manager.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

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Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go by frankzinger on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:04AM (#16688449)
Interestingly, Debian/Ubuntu has standalone packages for most of the boost libs that need to be compiled.
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