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Conan vs zef

Conan

conan.io

zef

github.com

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FigureConanzef
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
Plans published21
Spec score · Package Managers9.0 (#3)7.2 (#86)
Dependency resolutionYesYes
Free planYesYes
Package formatsConan recipes and binary packagesRaku distributions; Git repositories; tar.gz archives; local paths

Plans

Conan

  • ConanFree
  • Artifactory Community EditionFree

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zef

  • FreeFree

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In their own words

Conan

Conan is a free, open-source package manager for C and C++ projects. It manages dependencies and binary packages through Conan recipes, with dependency resolution, lockfiles, workspaces, private registry authentication and offline installation. Binary configurations can vary by architecture, compiler and version, runtime, and C++ standard library. If a matching binary is unavailable, Conan can build from source on demand. It supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, embedded and bare-metal targets, as well as desktop, server and mobile platforms. Build integrations include CMake, MSBuild, Makefiles, Meson and SCons; other integrations include Docker, MinGW, WSL and JFrog Artifactory. Teams can share and reuse native binaries. Artifactory Community Edition offers self-hosted private package hosting, with a WebUI, authentication and permissions. Conan is released under the MIT License. The listed plan describes the package manager as free and open source; no price is stated for either plan.

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zef

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