Summary
This episode begins a mini-series on C++ package managers, starting with Conan. Jason documents his first-time experience setting up and using Conan to integrate the fmt library into a C++ project. He walks through the process from installing Conan via pip, creating the necessary conanfile.txt with package requirements, integrating with CMake, and resolving compiler compatibility issues. Despite some initial setup challenges with compiler version detection, Jason successfully builds and runs a program using the fmt library in about 25 minutes, demonstrating Conan's practical utility for C++ dependency management.