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Having a large body of existing packages would be nice, but if this can be used with a private repository, it's be hugely valuable to me even if it had no open source packages available at all. I work in a corporate context where projects frequently have multiple complex internal proprietary dependencies. The hacks and workarounds I've seen just to get a sane build up and running in this context are unbelievable. After having used Cargo for some personal projects, I yearn for a similar tool in the C / C++ landscape.


> if this can be used with a private repository

Sure, you can run both archive-based and version control-based (git) private repositories without any restrictions.


Right, I see that in the docs, which is awesome!

My comment was more responding to the claim that this wouldn't be a useful tool without a large body of open-source packages, which I disagree with.


Actually vcpkg designed for this. It is a package managemer for your packages. You have to maintain a submodule of vcpkg.




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