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 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

What does Sherlocked mean?

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

	▲	jrmg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This makes it sound like Sherlock was named in response to Watson. It was the other way around. Earlier versions of Mac OS had an app called ‘Sherlock’[^1] that could search local files and the web in a fairly rigid manner. ‘Watson’[^2] was a third party shareware app very much inspired by Sherlock (and obviously, given the name, not trying to hide that!) that was much more flexible, more ‘OS X-like’, arguably much more user friendly, and was open to plugins (like, there was a movie time search plugin, an eBay plugin, an Amazon plugin etc). Sherlock 3[^3], in MacOS 10.2, was redesigned with a UI very like that of Watson, and also allowed similar plugins, making Watson obsolete. In the Apple developer world, “being Sherlocked” came to mean “your app being made obsolete by Apple including identical functionality with the OS”. 1: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/f2d124c36d74f71c6... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)

doodpants 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

xd1936 2 hours 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.

Thank you, I learned it today. On the other side, some users replaced Sherlock (Spotlight) with Alfred.

	▲	MBCook a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		I think the Sherlock thing was in the OS 8 or OS 9 days whereas Spotlight didn’t come around until sometime in macOS X, maybe 10.4 or so?

rahkiin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?

They did not want that and discouraged it.

	▲	daveverwer 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is a genuinely interesting topic, and as we say in the blog post: > Together, we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. The great thing about a registry is that it doesn't care where the original source is hosted. We will be moving away from that model completely as we work towards this.

bigyabai an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Merging a PR with Apple is harder than merging into the left side of a six-lane highway during rush hour.

	▲	rescripting an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Is it? What's difficult about it? I see PRs from contributors outside Apple all the time in https://github.com/swiftlang/

trollbridge an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please get in touch, as I've wanted this to support Gitlab (et al) for a while, and I'm nervous about the future of SPI now.

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