poac vs sw

poac

A package manager and build system for C++ (by poac-dev)

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poac.dev

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sw

Software Manager. Build System, Build System Generator and Package Manager. C/C++ and other languages. Tools and libraries for Software Management. (by SoftwareNetwork)

software-network sw Build system package-manager software-manager

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software-network.org

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poac		sw
	Project
2	Mentions	2
944	Stars	112
7.9%	Growth	4.5%
9.6	Activity	8.6
6 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C++	Language	C++
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

poac

Posts with mentions or reviews of poac. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Equivalent of Cargo for C++: Poac (author says in-development)
1 project | /r/cpp | 12 May 2023
Poac – a package manager for C++ like Cargo for Rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2022

sw

Posts with mentions or reviews of sw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-14.

HMake - The First Of Its Kind. A Build System That Uses C++ For Configuration File.
1 project | /r/cpp | 8 Jul 2021

Not the first to use C++ : https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw
BuildSystem where build scripts are written in C++
5 projects | /r/cpp | 14 Jun 2021

You might want to look at https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw , they too write build scripts in c++ and there is a comparison section in documentation with differend build systems.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing poac and sw you can also consider the following projects:

cppan - Project evolved into Software Network: https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw

bpt - A C++ tool for a new decade

hb-appstore - Homebrew App Store - GUI for downloading/managing homebrew apps

Bear - Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.

libdnf - Package management library.

build_in_cpp - Build C, C++ and ASM files in C++

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

cmkr - Modern build system based on CMake and TOML.

npackd-cpp - Package manager for Microsoft Windows (GUI and command line utility)

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).