[forrestthewoods]

I emphatically agree. C++ needs a standard build system that doesn’t suck ass. Most people would agree it needs a package manager although I think that is actually debatable.

Neither of those things require modules as currently defined.

[germandiago]

That is not even half realistic. Are you going to port all that code out there (autotools, cmake, scons,meson, bazel, waf...) to a "true" build system?

Only the idea is crazy. What Conan does is much more sensible: give s layer independent of the build system (and a way to consume packages and if you want some predefined "profiles" such as debug, etc), leave it half-open for extensions and let existing tools talk with that communication protocol.

That is much more realistic and you have way more chances of having a full ecosystem to consume.

Also, noone needs to port full build system or move from oerfectly working build systems.

[forrestthewoods]

Are the perfectly working build systems in the room with us now? Cmake and Conan ain’t it.

> That is not even half realistic.

uv is an existence proof that when you make something that doesn’t suck ass the entire industry will very very rapidly converge.

Claude makes converting any particular configuration from one system to another very very very tractable.