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I think the success and rapid adoption of Swift Package Manager as it has become a viable solution speaks to this deep desire in the community to have an Apple
by danpalmer 6y ago
I think the success and rapid adoption of Swift Package Manager as it has become a viable solution speaks to this deep desire in the community to have an Apple provided solution to it.
CocoaPods was a hugely important part of the iOS ecosystem and will be for years to come, but SPM is a great next step.
- Duckton 6y agoI think you overestimate how long CocoaPods will be used, all third party libraries I’ve used in the last 6-12 months supports SPM
- throw14082020 6y agoPseudo-counter point: SPM for firebase iOS SDK is in beta, and was released 2 weeks ago. Before this, you couldn't use SPM. The readme recommended (defaulted) to Cocoapods, with "experimental instructions for carthage". Therefore Cocoapods is likely used by most iOS apps with firebase.
- username_my1 6y agoOur app is in objC and we’re not planning a rewrite anytime soon.
- RandallBrown 6y agoAnd none of the ones I use support SPM.
- dep_b 6y agoSo apparently a lot of them do support SPM even when it doesn't say so in the README. Confusing, annoying. Out of a project with 10 dependencies I thought only 4 supported SPM by reading the README but in the end only one (which was my own...) Cocoapad didn't have SPM support.