vcpkg

[AReichl]

Hi,

i lately discovered "vcpkg" from Microsoft. A tool for library management.
At first it was a little tricky, but meanwhile i don't want to miss it ( nearly
all open-source libraries i use can be found ).

Irrlicht ( 1.8.4-4 ) is also included.

Now my question(s):

- Who provided the package and how is it updated?

- WOULD it be possible to provide a "development" version; then you could
upgrade from within vcpkg and always have the latest version compiled
in any flavour ( 32/64bit, dynamic/static ) available.

Of course you can do that yourself ( i do ), but i thought that by having
it in vcpkg may help.
I'll try to find out what amount of work you need to create and provide
a package.

[CuteAlien]

I don't think anyone from our team does that. Unless he does it secretly. Looks like it's from Microsoft directly? Or probably a patch provided to them from someone. You can check maintainers there (per file), seems original contributor was likely someone called Phoebe: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/tree ... s/irrlicht
With some patch from someone from the blue brain project... are those guys using Irrlicht?
I don't know if vcpkg allows downloading from svn which would be necessary for a development version. If so you can probably recommend some patch to them.
Interestingly also another CMakeFile for Irrlicht there.