add vcpkg ecosystem

[hexorer]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Feature description

There is an issue related to C++ (#2027) but it's quite vague and there several ways to dependency management for a C++ codebase. including conan, vcpkg, fetch_content (similar to git clone at config time), submodules (which is already supported), and a few others.

In this issue I'm requesting to add ecosystem for vcpkg specifically, as it's a standalone package manager and similar to many other ecosystems defined in here it has a proper well-defined manifest file format.

It has a straightforward documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/) and a great supportive community at discord (https://www.includecpp.org/).

[nam20485]

+1

vcpkg is also a MS product and has broad support across multiple platforms/os's, including integrations with GitHub and Actions (i.e. GitHub Actions Cache/GitHub Packages binary caching) so it seems like it would be a really good choice of an ecosystem to add support for.

[julianxhokaxhiu]

+1

I'd like to see this added as it would benefit a lot of C++ projects around. Looking forward to it. Thanks!