cpp: Document the mcap vcpkg port

[ethanmusser]

Changelog

Add a brief blurb and badge referencing the new vcpkg port for mcap in the README.md.

Docs

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Description

A vcpkg port is in the works in microsoft/vcpkg#47084. This change calls out that port in the README.md so that new users are aware that it exists.

Draft TODOs

• Wait for [mcap] Add port at v2.0.2 microsoft/vcpkg#47084 to land.

[james-rms]

The vcpkg package is not supported by this repo's maintainers, so I don't think it makes sense to link out to it as if it were. I can work on some wording to call it out as a third-party project in the README.

[james-rms]

Closing in favor of #1451

[ethanmusser]

The vcpkg package is not supported by this repo's maintainers, so I don't think it makes sense to link out to it as if it were. I can work on some wording to call it out as a third-party project in the README.

@james-rms Thanks for putting the link in the README! As an aside, is there any chance of seeing an officially-maintained vcpkg port alongside the already-maintained Conan package?

[james-rms]

@ethanmusser not at this time. CMake wrappers are difficult to provide a good user experience for, since everyone needs something a little different there. The goal of the first-party MCAP C++ library is to be easy to integrate into whatever build system you need, CMake or otherwise.

[ethanmusser]

@ethanmusser not at this time. CMake wrappers are difficult to provide a good user experience for, since everyone needs something a little different there. The goal of the first-party MCAP C++ library is to be easy to integrate into whatever build system you need, CMake or otherwise.

Darn, figured it was worth asking. I will say that the approach in olympus-robotics/mcap_builder is pretty close to standard as far as vendoring a header-only CMake library like this one (with the #define MCAP_IMPLEMENTATION define). But totally understood, thanks for the consideration and for calling out the third-party vcpkg port!