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ChrisMarshallNYyesterday at 9:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Glad to see it.

I like the SPM, but it definitely has its "rough edges."

Having an index like this, is great.

However, I guarantee that there will be some caterwaulin', if Apple decides to regulate which packages get indexed (which I think should happen, as it's now an official Apple brand).


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jagged-chiselyesterday at 10:12 PM

> … if Apple decides to regulate which packages get indexed

I have mixed feelings here. If they disallow too much, they’ll alienate too many projects and there will be an exodus of non-Apple platform Swift devs.

I guess it doesn’t really gate pulling any dependencies you want, but too much and/or the wrong kind of filtering (e.g. removing non-Apple alternatives to core Apple libraries) would not look (nor feel) good.

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