mason
A cross-platform package manager for C and C++ apps that supplies prebuilt binaries. It is marked as unmaintained and frozen.
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Overview
Mason is a command line package manager for C and C++ applications that supplies prebuilt binaries. Like npm, it installs packages into the current directory (./mason_packages) instead of globally, and like Homebrew it needs no sudo. It is a collection of bash scripts with no dependency on a specific runtime language, and it has integrations with Travis CI and Amazon S3 for automated builds and publishing.
Key features
- Installs packages locally into ./mason_packages without sudo
- Built from bash scripts with no runtime language needed
- Builds and publishes binaries and header-only packages
- Integrates with Travis CI and Amazon S3
Best for
Readers studying how C/C++ dependencies were packaged in this ecosystem. The project is unmaintained and frozen, and its authors advise finding a replacement before depending on it.
- Upstream
- mapbox/mason
- Fork on GitHub
- Guo-astro/mason
- Upstream stars
- 258
- Category
- Developer tools and infrastructure
- Language
- Python
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Forked
- 2020-10-11
- Sync status
- In syncLast synced 2026-10-11
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