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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…

rahkiin 3mo ago
Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?
- bigyabai 3mo ago
  Merging a PR with Apple is harder than merging into the left side of a six-lane highway during rush hour.
  - rescripting 3mo ago
    Is it? What's difficult about it? I see PRs from contributors outside Apple all the time in https://github.com/swiftlang/ https://github.com/swiftlang/
  - pylotlight 3mo ago
    Do I dare mention the family guy way to achieve this? :P
- peterspath 3mo ago
  They did not want that and discouraged it.
  - daveverwer 3mo ago
    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.
    - peterspath 3mo ago
      That is good to hear :-)
huflungdung 3mo ago
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unfunco 3mo ago
Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
- nish__ 3mo ago
  What does Sherlocked mean?
  - xd1936 3mo ago
    It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.
    - cavoirom 3mo ago
      Thank you, I learned it today. On the other side, some users replaced Sherlock (Spotlight) with Alfred.
      - MBCook 3mo ago
        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?
      - fastball 3mo ago
        And somewhere in there Quicksilver was pretty popular. And now in 2026 the main competition is Raycast. An evergreen space really.
  - julianozen 3mo ago
    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 3mo ago
trollbridge 3mo ago
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.

rahkiin 3mo ago

Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?

bigyabai 3mo ago
Merging a PR with Apple is harder than merging into the left side of a six-lane highway during rush hour.
- rescripting 3mo ago
  Is it? What's difficult about it? I see PRs from contributors outside Apple all the time in https://github.com/swiftlang/ https://github.com/swiftlang/
- pylotlight 3mo ago
  Do I dare mention the family guy way to achieve this? :P
peterspath 3mo ago
They did not want that and discouraged it.
- daveverwer 3mo ago
  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.
  - peterspath 3mo ago
    That is good to hear :-)

huflungdung 3mo ago

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unfunco 3mo ago

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

nish__ 3mo ago
What does Sherlocked mean?
- xd1936 3mo ago
  It's a reference to Sherlock (and later Spotlight) being added to macOS, rendering the previous third-party search-launcher tools obsolete.
  - cavoirom 3mo ago
    Thank you, I learned it today. On the other side, some users replaced Sherlock (Spotlight) with Alfred.
    - MBCook 3mo ago
      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?
    - fastball 3mo ago
      And somewhere in there Quicksilver was pretty popular. And now in 2026 the main competition is Raycast. An evergreen space really.
- julianozen 3mo ago
  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 3mo ago

trollbridge 3mo ago

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.