<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>+1 to this, but I'm not sure that this mailing list is the right place to discuss evolution of the package manager.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I think you can directly send a pull request to the repository to be evaluated.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 05 Dec 2015, at 21:25, Lander Brandt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">On the Swift package manager page on <a href="http://swift.org" class="">swift.org</a> (<a href="https://swift.org/package-manager/#example-usage" class="">https://swift.org/package-manager/#example-usage</a>) the requirements for creating a package/application are clearly outlined, but why not include a command in the swift tool for autogenerating the require? I did a quick look and didn’t see any existing discussion, so I apologize if this has already been discussed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Example of the tool command: `swift init foo --type=(lib|app)`</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would create a new directory called “foo” with the following tree structure for a project of type app:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">foo</div><div class="">├── Package.swift</div><div class="">├── Packages</div><div class="">├── README.md</div><div class="">└── main.swift</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And for project of type lib:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">foo</div><div class="">├── Package.swift</div><div class="">├── README.md</div><div class="">└── Sources</div><div class=""> └── Foo.swift</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In both cases Package.swift would contain something basic like:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">import PackageDescription</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">let package = Package(</div><div class=""> name: “Foo",</div><div class=""> dependencies: [</div><div class=""> ]</div><div class="">)</div></div>
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