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Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective by de_watcher on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:05AM (#23307903)
Most of the C++ is curated by the package maintainers. That's the key: do not let upstream programmers do it (they adore their unique build systems and other stuff like that).

That's how you get quality user experience. It creates balance between developer of the library/tool and the user of the library/tool.

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Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective by alleskleber on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:14AM (#23308587)
In my last C++ project (it's been a while) we ended up including many of our dependencies in source as we required different versions, different build options or small modifications compared to the packaged version.

Most of the time we would create a minimal CMake file to build the library to our specs or adapt the existing CMake file.

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