In my team, one of the things we always make sure of is keeping our dependencies up to date. We rarely add a dependency without a really good reason, and when we do, we assign an owner who is responsible for keeping it up to date.
WWDC21 has brought many cool things and there is one that will facilitate a lot the creation of new projects with dependencies. Until now it was a bit of a pain to remember which packages you wanted to add on almost every new project. It was such an inconvenience that I even have my small CLI to create new Swift packages. But I think now there is a better way!
With the release Xcode 11 is now easier than ever before to work with the Swift Package manager. If I enjoyed making CLI tools with Swift before, now it’s a pleasure! Lately I’ve been working on a small plugin for the recently released static site generator Publish. And the plugin is itself a Swift Package so I had to opportunity to enjoy SPM and Swift tooling development.
Make is one of those tools that I’ve always been curious about but never had a good change to try it until a couple of years ago. It is a really powerful and convenient tool and in all honesty I just use it as a task runner, I define some names for a set of commands and run them that way.
Watch how I create and publish a library with Swift Package Manager for the first time!