If you are only building application bundles for Darwin platforms, have no interest in server Swift, you don’t *need* to look into SPM for now. But as its going to be part of Xcode soon, and if you want to help shape into something you would be interested it, its always worth looking at it now.
> On 02 Aug 2016, at 14:24, zh ao <owe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have these questions because I saw SPM can build executables as well. I am > wondering if I could benefit from learning SPM now or I should leave it alone. > > It seems that those questions are too early to ask for one who is solely > using Xcode. > > Zhaoxin > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:15 PM +0800, "David Hart" <da...@hartbit.com > <mailto:da...@hartbit.com>> wrote: > > I don't know what you mean by packaging. Xcode has been build > responsibilities, including many which SPM does not currently address and may > never will: building application bundles for Apple platforms, building > resource bundles, building Darwin frameworks (I'm fairly sure SPM currently > only builds simple libraries). > > On the topic of what Xcode will become, this is not the place to discuss it. > And I'm fairly sure you won't get any specifics from the Xcode team as it's > still under Apple's umbrella of secrecy. The only thing we know or can guess > is that it will get some sort of SPM integration. > > On 2 Aug 2016, at 13:54, Zhao Xin via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org > <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote: > >> Is Swift Package Manager, SPM, the competitor to Xcode packaging? Or is it >> the future of Xcode packing? If it is, when will it be put into Xcode? >> >> Also, what are the differences between built packages and Apple provided >> frameworks? Are they just the same thing with different names? >> >> Zhaoxin >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users>
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