Posts tagged c++

The case for bundling dependencies*

Let's talk about dependency bundling on Linux, and why it isn't always a bad thing. ... With some asterisks.

Installing CrowCpp with submodules and Conan without using the Crow Conan package

CrowCpp's conan package is, at the time of writing anyway, heavily out of date, which isn't great. There hasn't been a tagged version in ages either, so this isn't Conan's fault, but the problem is still a problem regardless of whose fault it is.

On the bright side, it isn't too bad to install. It's just unnecessarily convoluted due to CrowCpp not dealing with its own dependencies.

First of all, add CrowCpp as a submodule:

C++ time sucks: parsing incomplete timestamps

There's not that many ways to parse incomplete dates and infer any missing time attributes. `std::chrono` is verbose on a good day