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Hello, Is there already a built-in package manager in Swift? Maybe CocoaPods will have support for Swift but, as a completely new environnement, I'm hoping tha

• greenbast 12y ago
  Currently, I'm not aware of one. However, once Swift comes out of beta (and with some time) I think the best practices to distribute libraries will become evident. It would be great if Apple released a dependency manager for Swift, though!
  • dirtyaura 12y ago
    I think Apple should build the basic hooks so that package manager like CocoaPods is possible but a better solution will emerge if the package system is handled outside of Apple which is likely have a huge legal that prevents healthy ecosystem.
• lazerwalker 12y ago
  Xcode 6 provides better support for third-party frameworks, which certainly makes distributing packages without a third-party took like CocoaPods easier, but it doesn't have anything resembling a proper package manager or dependency resolution tool. Right now, the state of distributing libraries in Swift seems to be "add it as a git submodule, and either add the xcodeproj and link the compiled framework or just drag in the .swift files, but let's hope the community comes up with something better soon".
• jpsim 12y ago
  With both iOS & OSX now supporting frameworks, CocoaPods has the potential of becoming much more elegant. See progress on this here: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/pull/2222 https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/pull/2222