Let’s say I have a hypothetical program that I’ve written where I want a certain feature to be a compile-time option. From the compiler’s point of view, I can just do -D some_optional_feature, no problem. But, what if this optional feature required a separate Shard as a dependency? Ideally this s…

Yeah, Autotools won’t initiate a dependency download on its own, though you could do add it in if you really want. Meson has Wrap, which I haven’t used myself, but it seems to do like I’m thinking. You have a good point, however, and I agree that Shards and Autotools aren’t exactly at the same lev…

"./configure" equivalent for Shards

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"./configure" equivalent for Shards

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