This is one of the big blockers for our iOS team in moving to SwiftPM.
Not all of our internal libraries have resources, but at the very least
our UI libraries contain xibs and some images, and more commonly our
libraries at least have a Localizable.strings file.
We've started moving over to resource bundles to make working with
static libraries simpler, which also obviously aren't currently
supporting with SwiftPM / cross platform.
I think it would be great if SwiftPM could solve this use case!
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Keith Smiley
On 09/22, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution wrote:
I have never once felt a need to distribute a library with an icon
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Karl Wagner via swift-evolution <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21. Sep 2017, at 18:51, Karl Wagner via swift-evolution <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I’m really happy that Swift 4 is out, and it’s great that there’s
already so much active discussion about Swift 5 (concurrency, etc). I find
I’m running in to language roadblocks less and less, and the improvements
to the generics system have really improved a lot of my code. It’s really
enjoyable to program in Swift, so thanks to everybody who made it possible.
>
> When I think about what’s missing from Swift, I think of modules. We all
like to write modular code, and aside from the entire discussion about
submodules, the way that you glue separate modules together in to an
application is supposed to be via the package manager. For Swift 5, I would
personally really like it if we could flesh out the package manager a bit
more so that it can really be the basis of a thriving Swift developer
community in production environments.
>
> The thing that hits me the most with SwiftPM currently is that it
doesn’t support resources, and it has very limited support for
cross-platform modules (the type of thing you’re likely to have as a Model
or Model Controller layer). Without support for bundled application
resources, there’s no way for the package manager to support GUI apps or
frameworks and unit-tests can’t reliably point to bundled test resources.
>
> I have some ideas about ways we could improve the situation, but first I
thought I’d send this out for some community feedback. Do you think SwiftPM
is as important as I do for v5? Which improvements would give you the most
benefit?
>
> - Karl
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Title is rubbish (copy/paste error). Should be “SwiftPM in Swift5”.
But seriously, one of the themes from the discussions in the past release
was that “there’s no good library for X” or “when will people use Swift for
Y?”. I believe the package manager is a big hurdle to getting more, great
libraries in wider use. CocoaPods is far from sufficient. Thinking about
this hypothetical future Xcode integration; how is that even supposed to
happen when the package manager doesn’t support Apps with bundled resources
(like icons)?
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