Swift Package Index joins Apple

 (swiftpackageindex.com)

60 points | by JDevlieghere 1 hour ago

3 comments

  • peterspath 50 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 16 minutes ago
      Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
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      • nish__ 7 minutes ago
        What does Sherlocked mean?
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        • julianozen 5 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 3 minutes ago
          https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained
        • xd1936 5 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 39 minutes ago
      Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?
    • huflungdung 35 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • frou_dh 20 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 55 minutes 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 37 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 34 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 14 minutes ago
          No true Scotsman…
    • SoKamil 49 minutes ago
      This acquisition sounds like a sign that Apple wants to get better on that front.
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      • jshier 33 minutes ago
        That's a pretty low bar, and doesn't necessarily mean "good".