Swift Package Index joins Apple

peterspath an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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…

▲

unfunco 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.

▲

nish__ 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

What does Sherlocked mean?

	▲	julianozen 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained
	▲	xd1936 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.

▲

rahkiin an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?

	▲	peterspath 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They did not want that and discouraged it.

▲

frou_dh 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

▲

marcelox86 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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

▲

jshier 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	y1n0 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No true Scotsman…

▲

SoKamil an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This acquisition sounds like a sign that Apple wants to get better on that front.

	▲	jshier 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's a pretty low bar, and doesn't necessarily mean "good".