Boost vs UppHub

Boost

Super-project for modularized Boost (by boostorg)

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UppHub is the repository that serves as the official global registry for U++ distributed packages. Each package provides additional functionality that can be used directly by the developers. (by ultimatepp)

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Boost		UppHub
	Project
9	Mentions	2
6,540	Stars	8
2.0%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	5.4
5 days ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
HTML	Language
Boost Software License 1.0	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Boost

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

The Future of Boost by Vinnie Falco
5 projects | /r/cpp | 8 May 2023

git clone https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git -b ${{ inputs.branch }} "${{ inputs.boost-dir }}" --depth 1 git submodule update --depth 1 -q --init tools/boostdep python tools/boostdep/depinst/depinst.py --include library_i_want"
Boost – a new open-source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023

Any thoughts on why it has exactly the same name as a popular source available project that's been around since the 1990s?
earliest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991011120524/http://www.boost....
latest commit (today): https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/7727baea944c6365301...
naming in 2023: "The Boost project provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
naming in 1999: "The Boost web site provides a repository for free C++ libraries"
Introducing Boost - a new open source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
2 projects | /r/opensource | 18 Apr 2023

Hmm...
Boost with RPMs
1 project | /r/cpp | 30 Jan 2023

include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(boost URL https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases/download/boost-1.81.0/boost-1.81.0.tar.xz ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(boost) ...
Boost:Boost
2 projects | /r/u_Pure-Ability-2363 | 19 Oct 2022
Boost v1.79.0 released
5 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Apr 2022

set(BOOST_INCLUDE_LIBRARIES system thread) # enabled libraries set(BOOST_ENABLE_CMAKE ON) # CMake support FetchContent_Declare(boost GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git ...
Easy to use, fast, git sourced based, statically linked C/C++ package manager.
6 projects | /r/cpp | 22 Oct 2021

In fact, boost has cmake files now — pretty recent addition and I haven’t got around to testing, but no reason to think it doesn’t work. https://github.com/boostorg/boost. Also, boost is getting more modular with every release — more and more libraries can be pulled independently with mostly only depending on boost.core. Asio has been like this forever, but Boost.math is a recent example to the bandwagon. You can find an independent release package for math on GitHub now.
Is there a uniform boost release download url?
1 project | /r/cpp | 9 Aug 2021

Do you build boost from sources? If so, maybe get the tar balls from their Github repository?

UppHub

Posts with mentions or reviews of UppHub. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.

U++ 2022.3 has been release with one major change
3 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Dec 2022

Yes, we have a lot of users. U++ has been downloaded more that 350 000 times on SourceForge. Our GitHub statistics are pretty good too. We have 540 stars and 84 forks. Moreover, we have a lot of independent contributors that creating packages through UppHub that expanding the possibility of framework.
Easy to use, fast, git sourced based, statically linked C/C++ package manager.
6 projects | /r/cpp | 22 Oct 2021

Now as we have somewhat similar project, I wonder how in practice is this part going to be done:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost and UppHub you can also consider the following projects:

abseil-cpp - Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

yacpm - Easy to use, fast, git sourced based, C/C++ package manager.

Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.

cmake - CMake support infrastructure Boost submodule

Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

CPM.cmake - 📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.

Dlib - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

crates.io - The Rust package registry

JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.

ultimatepp - U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmer's productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, Network etc.), and integrated development environment (TheIDE).

Seastar - High performance server-side application framework

EASTL - Obsolete repo, please go to: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL