Xcode 11 SPM Support/Release

[RamblinWreck77]

Hello! Now that the Xcode 11 GM is out, we're attempting to migrate from Cocoapods -> SwiftPM.

It looks like Package.swift is already on master, but there hasn't been a release that includes that commit yet.

For now, simply switching SPM to "master" resolves the issue, but would you guys be interested in pushing out a release soon that officially supports SPM?

[DimaVartanian]

Hey @RamblinWreck77, thanks for the heads up! The team is working on cutting a new release.

[joeboyscout04]

How's it going with the release? This is one of our last dependencies for our SPM conversion.

[Petteri78]

@RamblinWreck77 Did you manage to get it working with SPM from master? We get import errors when compiling.

[RamblinWreck77]

@Petteri78 I haven't tried master, though just looking at it I'm blown away that it has over a year of active development past the latest release. I usually shy away from using master since I don't want some stray commit causing instability and clear cut releases make testing easier, but if this is how they're doing things I might reconsider.

If they don't want to periodically cut releases once a quarter or so why bother supporting this (awesome) library in the first place?

[danqing]

I think the new IGListDiffKit change also needs to be added to SPM

[Ziewvater]

@danqing good call-out, this is something we'll need to make sure SPM can handle the changes with splitting IGListKit and IGListDiffKit

[nick-potts]

Now that 4.0 is out, can this be revisited? I had a crack at setting up the Package.swift but it was out of my depth.

[lorixx]

@nick-potts Totally, we would prioritize to fix the SPM integration here, thanks for raising this!

[mohpor]

Any news?

[ivenprillwitz]

Any News?

[patch-benjamin]

The issue appears to be that the package.swift file doesn't include any dependency references. From my limited research on Swift PM I believe the package.swift file should include a dependency section that lists IGListDiffKit as a dependency and then make that framework also support Swift PM. Not sure if that would really fix it, but it seems like the right first step/direction.
https://swift.org/package-manager/#importing-dependencies

[mohpor]

All that is needed to be done is to update the import declarations in some files. it's not that hard and I've already done it (contribute to) a few frameworks with C/C++ dependencies.

[RamblinWreck77]

Any news/progress?

[lorixx]

I have this draft SPM setting code WIP: lorixx@81c90ae

However, I hit a road blocker for the "Internal header file not found error" error, ugrrr really hate Xcode project settings and I have no idea how to proceed here. If anyone want to continue to explore, feel free to take my draft code and send a PR!

[3a4oT]

@lorixx please see #1465, it took me some time to workaround bunch of limitations of SPM but I was able to make it work.

[RamblinWreck77]

Super exciting work @3a4oT, hope this ships soon!

[3a4oT]

thanks, @RamblinWreck77, I think there is some workable solution now. Will appreciate any feedback from a real user :)

[BrentMifsud]

any updates on this?