Swift Package Index joins Apple

(swiftpackageindex.com)

65 points | by JDevlieghere 1 hour ago

3 comments

peterspath 57 minutes ago
Well I was thinking about making a competitor to SPI because they only support GitHub repo’s.
This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…
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- unfunco 23 minutes ago
  Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
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  - nish__ 14 minutes ago
    What does Sherlocked mean?
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    - julianozen 12 minutes ago
      It means Apple (or big tech) has adopted/cloned your product basically killing your products ability to succeed
      In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson
    - doodpants 11 minutes ago
      https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained
    - xd1936 12 minutes ago
      It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.
- rahkiin 46 minutes ago
  Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?
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  - peterspath 4 minutes ago
    They did not want that and discouraged it.
- huflungdung 42 minutes ago
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frou_dh 28 minutes ago
Back when I was following Swift, I was a bit confused by there being 2 distinct sites that seemed to be pretty much the same thing:
- https://swiftpackageregistry.com
- https://swiftpackageindex.com
jshier 1 hour ago
Not optimistic here. While I'm glad the SPI guys are getting paid (that is, a full time job), Apple is pretty bad at open source and developer services both, and they explicitly call out developer identity as a future direction, which doesn't fill me with hope.
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- marcelox86 44 minutes ago
  I see the opposite, they have a lot of oss projects nowadays and most of their new, interesting stuff is getting open sourced too, a la Microsoft
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  - jshier 41 minutes ago
    Simply being open doesn't make them good open source projects. Luckily the SPI shouldn't need to conform to Apple's release schedule, and should operate mostly independently, so the worst aspects of Apple's open source projects will be less of an issue.
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    - y1n0 21 minutes ago
      No true Scotsman…
- SoKamil 56 minutes ago
  This acquisition sounds like a sign that Apple wants to get better on that front.
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  - jshier 40 minutes ago
    That's a pretty low bar, and doesn't necessarily mean "good".