Christian Mazakas wrote on Monday, September 16, 2024 12:49 PM
In a similar vein, vcpkg actually did the same thing: switched their package files from using b2 to CMake.
In these kinds of cases, I think it's just that most projects can handle CMake projects in some capacity whereas b2 is a strong outlier so when applicable, it gets eschewed.
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