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Description
TL/DR: Given fpm
's support for building C and C++ projects, a name change could help to avoid initial misconceptions. Something like "Fun Package Manager" or "Fantastic Package Manager" would preserve the acronym fpm
, and either name would accurately describe my experience of fpm
. 😄
Motivation
I've had several recent experiences with introducing fpm
to a project wherein the developers were unfamiliar with fpm
and understandably assumed fpm
is limited to building Fortran. Given recent very positive experiences I've had with building C and C++ projects with fpm
, it would be nice to at least prevent this one obvious and avoidable source of confusion. To wit, I contributed a three-line (not counting one blank line) manifest to the SuperLU linear algebra package, which GitHub reports is 95% C and only 0.3% Fortran. I also forked Armadillo, a C++ project, and added a one-line fpm
manifest that suffices for building it as a dependency of another project.