Cmake vs Meson

[johne53]

This isn't a bug report or anything. Just something I've always been curious about... why does vcpkg offer two different build systems? Is it some kind of safety feature / fallback option? i.e. if someone was having problems with one system, then there's an alternative one they could try. Or are some ports better suited to building with Cmake and others are more suited to Meson?

[Neumann-A]

vcpkg needs to integrate with whatever exists upstream. There are various different ways to build something which includes buildsystems like CMake, Meson, Autotools, MSBuild, qmake, etc. If you want to package you package what exists and dont want to reinvent the buildsystem of upstream which otherwise becomes a maintenance burden for the packager.

[johne53]

Ah, I get it now. Thanks for clarifying.