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It takes all sorts, but I prefer the headers. Each project’s copy only gets upgraded explicitly, the debug info is always there, single stepping always works, there’s never a problem with ABI/compiler option mismatches (and you get the unoptimised version in your unoptimised build), anybody that gets the repo automatically gets all the dependencies too.

I.e. all the things you would get from a proper package manager if there was one for C++.

Sure... but it would have to be proper-as-in-proper. And what are the chances of that? Seems to be hard enough to even enforce the rule that ``-O3 -g'' is a thing, let alone all the rest :(

> That single file is the substitute for a package that you can simply put somewhere, include it and it works.

So the substitute is much better than the package!

The package manager of my OS does fine.