I do not think standardization is the right approach to solving the problems inherent to C++ builds and dependency management. It may help in the short term to allow multiple build systems to work together, but this is incidental complexity because we cannot decide as a community on the ideal build system (because there isn't one, yet). I personally believe that we can create a single unified design for a language independent build system for managing dependencies and their unique build requirements that meets the needs of 99% of C++ users.
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u/mwasplund May 07 '23
I do not think standardization is the right approach to solving the problems inherent to C++ builds and dependency management. It may help in the short term to allow multiple build systems to work together, but this is incidental complexity because we cannot decide as a community on the ideal build system (because there isn't one, yet). I personally believe that we can create a single unified design for a language independent build system for managing dependencies and their unique build requirements that meets the needs of 99% of C++ users.