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Conan vs Dist: What are the differences?
What is Conan? C/C++ package manager. Install or build your own packages for any platform. Conan also allows you to run your own server easily from the command line.
What is Dist? Reliable, secure, private and fast cloud-based artifact repositories. It offers private Docker Container Registries and Maven Repositories hosted in the cloud Fast, secure, reliable, with quality support. It runs its own purpose built CDN to ensure secure and fast access to your images and artifacts..
Conan and Dist can be categorized as "Hosted Package Repository" tools.
Some of the features offered by Conan are:
- Dependencies and package management for developers
- De-centralized
- Source code and binaries
On the other hand, Dist provides the following key features:
- Custom CDN
- Use native tools, no need for plugins
- Fast uploads and downloads
Conan is an open source tool with 3.73K GitHub stars and 499 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Conan's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Conan
- Crossplatform builds4
- Easy to maintain used dependencies3
- Build recipes can be very flexble2
- Integrations with cmake, qmake and other build systems1
Pros of Dist
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Cons of Conan
- 3rd party recipes can be flawed1