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spawn A small command-line tool to quickly tryout a Swift Package Manager (SPM) package locally.

As of Xcode 11, this has been sherlock'ed by Xcode 11 Package support :), as in from Xcode 11 onwards, Xcode will automatically resolve package dependencies and open Xcode project for you, no 3rd party tool needed. But I will keep this tool as learning purpose.

Its job is to check if current repo has anyPackage.swift and resolve dependencies and then open the Xcode for you.

(works withVapor,too)

$ spawnCompleted resolutionin 0.22s📦 ... Everything is already up-to-date🛠 ... generated: ./spawn.xcodeproj📂 ... opening updated Xcode project✅ all done!

NOTE: you might want to close Xcode to have thexed . taking into effect, or choseRevert option from Xcode alert.

When you want to try out or to edit a SPM package in Xcode, or after adding any new.package under SPM's package manifest file; you need to either runswift package update orswift package generate-xcodeproj and reload Xcode again.

This small wrapper aims to automate that process.

tldr; before:

$ git clone https://github.com/vinhnx/DictionaryNestedSubscript# clone any Swift Package Manager project$cd DictionaryNestedSubscript# change directory to newly cloned repo$ swift package update# update or resolve package dependencies$ swift package generate-xcodeproj# generate a .xcodeproj to edit on Xcode$ xed.# open generated .xcodeproj automatically

after:

$ git clone https://github.com/vinhnx/DictionaryNestedSubscript# clone any Swift Package Manager project$cd DictionaryNestedSubscript# change directory to newly cloned repo$ spawn

TODO: I will be looking at the way to automate cloning from remote repo in the future, for example:

$ spawn https://github.com/vinhnx/DictionaryNestedSubscript# not yet working

On any Swift package directory, aftergit clone:

$ spawn

You can use spawn as replacement for Vapor'svapor xcode -y command

before:

$ vapor xcode -y

after:

$ spawn

🆕swiftbrew

"A package manager that installs prebuilt Swift command line tool packages, or Homebrew for Swift packages."

$ swift brew install vinhnx/spawn

homebrew

$ brew tap vinhnx/homebrew-formulae$ brew install spawn

or

$ brew install vinhnx/homebrew-formulae/spawn

Mint

$ mint install vinhnx/spawn

Marathon

$ marathon install vinhnx/spawn

Make

$ git clone https://github.com/vinhnx/spawn.git$cd spawn$ make

Swift Package Manager

$ git clone https://github.com/vinhnx/spawn.git$cd spawn$ swift build -c release$ cp -f .build/release/spawn /usr/local/bin/spawn

If you like this tool, checkout myvintage, it's a tool to check for any outdated packages.

Combo:

$ vintage&& spawn# vintage: check for any outdated packages, spawn: generate and update packages for you

I hope you like it! :)

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