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GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages
- OberstKrueger 7y agoThis will go well with Xcode 11 supporting Swift Package Manager natively. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
- Xavdidtheshadow 7y agoI imagine that's not a coincidence.
- rkachowski 7y agoIt's pretty interesting that Cocoapods got so much flak years ago for basically exploiting Github's bandwidth to host a package registry for the apple ecosystem, and now Github are doing exactly the same as a first class product.
- Rockslide 7y agoWell part of the (if not THE) reason for that was that they were extremely inefficient in the whole process (complete clones of the master repository including the complete history, although you don't really need that as a cocoapods user). And it is still inefficient today, considering that an initial pod install takes around 12 minutes just to clone the cocapods repo...
- jolux 7y agoThey were actually using shallow clones which were more performance intensive for GitHub’s backend.
- lugg 7y agoEmbrace, extend. So what's next?
- smudgymcscmudge 7y agoDo you think ms is angling to “extinguish” Apple here?
- lugg 7y agoNo.. package managers / GitHub is the play here.
- jbigelow76 7y agoNo.. package managers / GitHub is the play here. So MS is attempting to extinguish GitHub, a property they own, now? Or is MS embracing blah blah blah the concept of package management?
- lewisj489 7y agoEVIL MICRO$OFT WANTS TO DESTROY PACKAGE MANAGERS
- lugg 7y agoWhy would anyone say this? No.. they buy GitHub so they own pretty much most of open source software. Embrace. Then they release a new package registry, one to rule them all, it supports all the things. Extend. Extinguish, I don't know, that's why I asked the question, I don't know what the play here is. Is it simply they now fully control distribution? This doesn't sound like an issue until we're 10 years down the line and nobody creates package managers anymore. Nobody mirrors Linux, and everything has to go through GitHub. Like I would think this is my own bias, and it certainly sounds tinfoil hattish to even me, but then I haven't forgotten those memos. Have you?
- giancarlostoro 7y agoPackage managers have their own servers so I am pretty sure that wont be happening. As for GitHub I have a feeling Microsoft is burning money on GitHub without too much expected back outside of meeting their goals to empower devs.
- IloveHN84 7y agoI hope they will introduce support for Conan/vcpkg C++ packages as well
- craigds 7y agoIs there any reason why Python isn't supported?
- natfriedman 7y agoPython is coming!
- postit 7y agoPPA please :)
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThis also would be quite interesting. We are baked into another ppa provider as it is. Theres so many GitHub projects that have a ppa setup elsewhere. If it lives in GH it may as well have a ppa (therefore a deb). I assume programming language packages will be first and later on system level packages if possible?
- pknopf 7y agoDeb/rpm please!
- skohan 7y agoHow is the dependency management situation on Python? I have dabbled in Python for a few projects, and it always felt like there was no "right way" to manage dependencies and environment.
- dagw 7y agoit always felt like there was no "right way" to manage dependencies and environment. That has been a huge problem in the past and it's still somewhat of a problem. However now that pip and virtualenv (renamed venv) are part of the standard python install and pip has gotten a lot better when comes to cross platform installs and handling binary dependencies, hopefully we'll see some more standardization around those tools. That being said, I use conda for managing dependencies and environment for basically all my python development work and have no complaints.
- actionowl 7y agoCool, now how much longer do I have to wait to use it?
- saagarjha 7y agoThere is a beta going on right now: you can sign up for you place in line.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoIt need a better name. Gems, maven etc like. Sgpm could be a starting point. Just can’t imagine anyone would remember without a good name.
- the_gipsy 7y agoGreat, now you can mix Cocoapods, Carthage, SPM and github!
- jopsen 7y agoHow immutable is this registry? What happens if the owner tries to remove their package, or rename it? or modify it? What if the owner deletes his/her account / organization, or renames user / organization? The nice thing about many package managers is that they don't allow mutation, removal or renaming of packages. So when you have a lock-file checked into git you can be sure you can fetch all the dependencies again.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI dont think its intended to replace the main package managers as much as to ensure you can deliver a tool you may already be using (GitHub). Especially if you want to ensure you dont accidentally publish production code to one of those package managers e.g. NPM which had a whole debacle about that a few months or a year back.
- bookofjoe 7y agoAs a complete non-techie (anesthesiologist) I thought at first glance at the OP title this was a new rival of Amazon Prime.
- joeblau 7y agoHehe. Packages are the developer term for a reusable piece of software that usually solves one problem.