Swift Package Indexing

Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt

Join Dave and Sven, the creators of the Swift Package Index open-source project, as they talk about progress on the project and discuss a new set of community package recommendations every episode. read less

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38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dave should have answered a question about adding a package into the Swift Package Index!News Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace page Getting Started with Swift on Android More Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackages Model3DView by Freek Pow by Robb Böhnke Gestures by Mikhail Vospennikov ScintillaLib by danielle NSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers RichString by Stefan van den Oord NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan Huang SwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

38: This is the least researched podcast in the history of podcasting

Inspired by a recent YouTube comment left on the previous episode, Dave and Sven talk about cross-platform Swift development with Visual Studio Code, Windows and Wasm compatibility, and about how Dave should have answered a question about adding a package into the Swift Package Index!News Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code introduction blog postSwift Extension marketplace page Getting Started with Swift on Android More Than Just Code podcast episode with DavePackages Model3DView by Freek Pow by Robb Böhnke Gestures by Mikhail Vospennikov ScintillaLib by danielle NSAttributedStringBuilder by Jasmin Eilers RichString by Stefan van den Oord NSAttributedStringBuilder by Ethan Huang SwiftUICoreImage by Dan Wood

37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave

37: With praise, you can include me, but any blame goes to Dave

Dave and Sven talk about the work that Cyndi Chin shipped as part of this year’s Swift Mentorship Program, and then dive into the details of some of the metrics, and answer a couple of listener questions about the feature. Plus six package recommendations, as always!News Revealing and explaining package scores by Cindy ChinThe Swift Mentorship Program Packages DirectJSON by Mertol Kasanan SwiftSummarize by Stef KorsSKSummary MemberwiseInit by Galen O’Hanlon typhoon by Nikita Vasilev swift-zpl by scchn ObfuscateMacro by p-x9

36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!

36: Even though the bug is fixed, it's not over!

Join us for talk of bugs and how we've either fixed or worked around them, why creating sustainable developer tools is so hard, and the story of which indie Mac app made Dave buy his first app!News Breadcrumbs by Marin Todorov Packages Grape by Zhen Li Firefly by Taylor Lineman Swift-ISO8601-DurationParser by Leon Hoppe automerge-swift by Joe HeckAutomerge for Swift blog post

35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy

35: It’s like a broccoli-eating competition. You can cheat by eating more broccoli, but you just end up more healthy

This week, we discuss importing ALL the packages, Swift 5.9, the Swift mentorship programme and package scores. Plus, of course, package recommendations!NewsScoring algorithmPackages SwiftGodot by Miguel de Icaza Documentation and tutorial SwiftGodotBinary swift-sdk-generator by Apple ZipPinch by Alexey Bukhtin swift-testing by Appleswift-testing Vision Document SwiftEmailValidator by Dave Poirier

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things

34: Here are some packages. They may do interesting things

What even is a recommendation? Join Dave and Sven as they talk about the tricky business of recommending, endorsing, or showcasing packages before diving into a review of dependencies in other package ecosystems, and how the Swift package ecosystem compares. Then we showcase some packages, as usual!News Worrying about the NPM ecosystemand Not Worrying Much About Crates Packages swift-macro-testing by PointfreeA new tool for testing macros in Swift swift-snapshot-testing by Pointfree CloudKitSyncMonitor by Grant Grueninger Lighter by Helge HeßPerformance Test Suite

33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day

33: We had some success, but it never saw the light of day

Join us as we talk about the disastrous week we had last week, where we had system failures, failed podcast recordings, and lumbago problems! We also talk about the upcoming Swift.org Package page and how we will curate the packages that get featured in the Community Showcase section. Plus, of course, community package recommendations.News Staging site for the Swift.org Packages pageand the associated pull request Packages xcbeautify by Tuist SwiftUI-Shimmer by Vikram Kriplaney SwiftPrompt by Michael O’Brian SF2Lib by Brad Howes SwiftAsyncAssert by angu software BezelKit by Mark Battistella

32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?

32: Which of your dependencies are load-bearing?

Do we understand how to add a package dependency after three years of creating the package index? No, we do not! We also discuss adding macro targets to Package pages, GitHub’s CodeQL analysis for Swift, and automating updating our package dependencies. Of course, we have six new package recommendations too!Follow up"Use this Package" showing an incorrect package name/identity – Issue 2451 NewsTim Condon’s CodeQL post on the Swift ForumsMarco Eidinger's GitHub action Swift Package Dependencies Checker Dependency details page – Issue 1321 Packages DataKit by Paul Kraft SwiftWhisper by Aaron Taylor CleverBird by B.T. Franklin Stores by Omar Albeik The Composable Architecture by Pointfree SwiftNRC by Joe Hinkle

31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"

31: Recommended by the Ministry of "How hard can it be?"

NewsImproved "Use this Package" button Pull Request Swift.org Packages page integration previewand the associated Pull Request Packages ColorToolbox by Ramon Torres FileMonitor by Kris Simon aka Peter Shaw Rearrange by ChimeHQ swift-concurrency-extras by Point-Freeand the “Reliably testing code” forum post SwiftUI-VPSwitchToggle by Vanson Leung TLDExtractSwift by Marco Eidingerand the Public Suffix List

30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it

30: I saw the rabbit hole you went down, and I hope you came out the other side of it

NewsSwift.org Community Showcase ForumSwift on RISC-VSupporting visionOSPackages DockProgress by Sindre Sorhus Swift HTTP Types by AppleIntroducing Swift HTTP Types ColorPaletteCodable by Darren FordColour management by Marc Edwards, Part 1Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 2Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 3Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 4Colour management by Marc Edwards, Part 5 Aoxiang by isaced Swifter by Damian Kołakowski and Victor Sigler

29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?

29: Are you saying that visionOS is more important than my sitemap?

News Canonical URL pull request contributions by Toby Herbert Tips for getting the most out of DocC by Joseph Heck Packages MetaCodable by Soumya Ranjan Mahunt AssociatedObject by p-x9 Renamed by Joseph Duffy SwiftyESBuild by Pedro Piñera SwiftMath by Michael Griebling ReviewKit by Cihat Gündüz

28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!

28: Your secrets are safe with us, we’ll forget them immediately!

NewsWhat’s new in Swift 5.9?A Vision for Macros in Swiftswift-ast-explorer Write Swift macros by Alex Hoppen Expand on Swift macros by Becca Royal-Gordon Privacy Manifests by Tony Tan Visualize Privacy Manifests – Discussion #2423 from Cihat Gündüz Packages swift-openapi-generator by AppleMeet Swift OpenAPI Generator RequestDL by Brenno de Moura CocoaUI by p-x9 SwiftUI-Introspect by David Roman and Lois Di Qual CloseEnough by Zev Eisenberg app-store-server-library-swift by Apple Bagbutik by Morten Bjerg Gregersen swiftly by Patrick Freed

27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations

27: Swift 5.9, WWDC, AR/VR/MR, and package recommendations

NewsMax Desiatov about Swift on WindowsRamin's blog post on using GPT to search documents and databases Swift Evolution on swift.org What's New in Swift 5.9Swift forums: NIO, Concurrency, and ExecutorsPackages LaTeXSwiftUI and MathJaxSwift by Colin Campbell URLQueryItemCoder by Kyle Hughes CountryKit by Frederik Jacques ViewKit by Lucas Werner Kuipers DCSettings by David Caddy SwiftLintPlugin by Adam Young

26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations

26: Swift on Windows, Wasm, SPI source code quiz, and package recommendations

News swift-win32 by Saleem Abdulrasool aka "compnerd" Wasm and SwiftWasm Max DesiatovSwift SDKs for Cross-CompilationQuiz Sitrep by Paul Hudson Packages OneFingerRotation by Matteo Fontana gonzales by Gon Solo (Andreas Wendleder) Rendering Moana with Swift blog post Moana Island Scene on Disney Animation Studios site DiscordKit by Swiftcord SwiftSoup by Nabil Chatbi

25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations

25: ChatGPT API exploration, SPI Playgrounds, Manifest validation, and package recommendations

NewsDiscussion topic: Generating package summaries with GPT Discussion topic: Experimenting with ingesting in SPI data into GPT via plugin Swift Package Index Playgrounds 1.1.0Validate SPI manifestPackagesEmojiText FoundationPreview, FoundationICU by AppleDSWaveformImage swift-ast-explorer by Kishikawa KatsumiSwift AST Explorer web appSwiftSyntaxExpression Macros Swift evolution proposal

24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations

24: Apple sponsorship Q&A and our package recommendations

News and Opening DiscussionThe announcement on the Swift Package Index blog.The announcement on Swift.org.Packages Crayon by David Walter With by Slipp Douglas Thompson docc-gpt by Gonzalo NuñezSwift forums announcement TrustKit by Alban Diquet PolyKit by Anton Heestand morkandmidi by Brad Howes

23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations

23: Site availability testing, Linux-only packages, and package recommendations

News StRest by Eyk Rehbein Rester by Sven A. SchmidtSwift Package Index Restfiles Packages Settings by Sindre Sorhus PopupView by Alisa Mylnikova MenuBuilder by Jed Fox ContributorUI by Dscyre Scotti GEOSwift by Andrew Hershberger, Virgilio Favero Neto, and Andrea Cremaschi swift-cli-version by Michael Housh

22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations

22: Search ranking, building documentation on Linux, OpenAI, and package recommendations

News Building DocC documentation on LinuxThe first two adopting packages are Benchmark and Frostflake by Joakim HassilaWeird issue with cp -r behaving differently on macOS and Linux Documentation build details pull requests #2110 and #2277 Packages Puid by PUID MacControlCenterUI by Steffan Andrews BWToolkit by Brandon Walkin GPTSwift by Dennis Müller OpenAIKit by Sergey Zhuravel and Mukha Kirill Periphery by Ian Leitch

21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations

21: Swift Charts, over 300 documented packages, collaborative Markdown editors, and package recommendations

NewsPost about charts in SwiftThe package documentation histogram Gist HackMD collaborative Markdown editorPackages Yorkie by Yorkie Team PotentCodables by Outfox TypographyKit by Ross Butler RichStringKit by Robbie Moyer VatNumberKit by Frederik Jacques SwiftyCreatives by Yuki Kuwashima

20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription

20: SPI in 2049, new “Supporters” page, and MacWhisper audio transcription

NewsThe Google Search Appliance MacWhisper by Jordi Bruin Packages Sextant by Rocco Bowling stable-diffusion by Apple MarkdownView by LiYanan2004 DiscordBM by Mahdi Bahrami MarkdownText by Shaps Relax by Thomas De Leon TootSDK by Konstantin Kostov and David Wood MastodonKit by Ornithologist Coder Mastodon.swift by Marcus Kida and Thomas Bonk MastodonAPI by Bei Lei

19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet?

19: The SPI project is growing up, DocC uploading with AWS Lambda, and Are we server yet?

NewsAre we server yet?AWS GravitonPackages swift-markdown-ui by Guille Gonzalez KVKCalendar by Sergei Kviatkovskii Draftsman by Nayanda Haberty tart by Cirrus Labs SunKit by Sunlitt PreviewResizable by Joan Duat