Vcpkg: Vcpkg.json / packages.json

[OlafvdSpek]

I'd love to see something like composer's composer.json or npm's packages.json. A (JSON) file that lists all dependencies allowing a simple vcpkg install to install them.

[ras0219-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion!

For now, the best way to accomplish this would be a bat file with the contents:

vcpkg install boost:x64-windows folly:x64-windows <etc>

Could you go into more detail about a scenario where a simple bat file like that would be insufficient?

[OlafvdSpek]

A .bat is code, I'd prefer this data to be data. This would allow other tools to also read the data and it might be more flexible.
It could also be the start for much more meta-data about a project.

Let's include an example:

{
    "name": "phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin",
    "type": "project",
    "description": "MySQL web administration tool",
    "keywords": ["phpmyadmin","mysql","web"],
    "homepage": "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/",
    "support": {
        "forum": "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/support/",
        "issues": "https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues",
        "wiki": "https://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/",
        "docs": "https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/",
        "source": "https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin"
    },
    "license": "GPL-2.0",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "The phpMyAdmin Team",
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "homepage": "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/team/"
        }
    ],
    "non-feature-branches": ["RELEASE_.*"],
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "PhpMyAdmin\\": "libraries/classes",
            "PhpMyAdmin\\Setup\\": "setup/lib"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "PhpMyAdmin\\Tests\\": "test/classes",
            "PhpMyAdmin\\Tests\\Selenium\\": "test/selenium/"
        }
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "https://www.phpmyadmin.net"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.0",
        "ext-mysqli": "*",
        "ext-xml": "*",
        "ext-pcre": "*",
        "ext-json": "*",
        "ext-ctype": "*",
        "ext-hash": "*",
        "phpmyadmin/sql-parser": "^4.2.3",
        "phpmyadmin/motranslator": "^3.4",
        "phpmyadmin/shapefile": "^2.0",
        "phpseclib/phpseclib": "^2.0",
        "google/recaptcha": "^1.1",
        "psr/container": "^1.0",
        "twig/twig": "^1.34",
        "twig/extensions": "~1.5.1",
        "symfony/expression-language": "^3.2 || ^2.8",
        "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "^1.3"
    },
    "conflict": {
        "phpseclib/phpseclib": "2.0.8",
        "tecnickcom/tcpdf": "<6.2",
        "pragmarx/google2fa": "<2.0",
        "bacon/bacon-qr-code": "<1.0",
        "samyoul/u2f-php-server": "<1.1"
    },
    "suggest": {
        "ext-openssl": "Cookie encryption",
        "ext-curl": "Updates checking",
        "ext-opcache": "Better performance",
        "ext-zlib": "For gz import and export",
        "ext-bz2": "For bzip2 import and export",
        "ext-zip": "For zip import and export",
        "ext-gd2": "For image transformations",
        "ext-mbstring": "For best performance",
        "tecnickcom/tcpdf": "For PDF support",
        "pragmarx/google2fa": "For 2FA authentication",
        "bacon/bacon-qr-code": "For 2FA authentication",
        "samyoul/u2f-php-server": "For FIDO U2F authentication"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.8.36 || ^5.7",
        "codacy/coverage": "^1.3.0",
        "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": "~1.2 || ^3.0",
        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.0",
        "tecnickcom/tcpdf": "^6.2",
        "pragmarx/google2fa": "^2.0",
        "bacon/bacon-qr-code": "^1.0",
        "samyoul/u2f-php-server": "^1.1",
        "phpmyadmin/coding-standard": "^0.3"
    },
    "extra": {
        "branch-alias": {
            "dev-master": "4.8.x-dev"
        }
    }
}

[bugproof]

That would be awesome and more close to how other package managers work. Cargo uses TOML and personally, I'd prefer it over JSON for listing dependencies or something like YAML.

[JackBoosY]

Close this issue via #11203 merged.