[swift-users] Xcode support for Swift Package Manager

[Daniel Dunbar]

Hi Nabeel,

Those are interesting ideas -- I'm not sure what it would take to use ctags with Swift, but you might consider taking a look at the SourceKit code in the Swift repository (tools/SourceKit). You might be able to leverage SourceKit's APIs to get the necessary information, and then it would be a matter of integrating this support into the package manager to provide the relevant files.

 - Daniel


> On Dec 4, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Nabeel Imtiaz <nimtiazm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Got it.
> 
> Meanwhile, also supporting emacs/vim through something like ctags would be great. Symbols' list and jump-to-definition would suffice initially.
> 
> Thanks.
> Nabeel
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 9:28 PM, Rick Ballard <rballard at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Nabeel Imtiaz <nimtiazm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to use Xcode along with the Package Manager support? 
>>> 
>>> This is much needed for a large code-base with a lot of dependencies on ext libs. I just tried to use Xcode 7.2 beta (following the instructions on swift.org) but haven’t been able to use Package Manager though. 
>> 
>> Hi Nabeel,
>> 
>> The Package Manager is still an early-stage project and is not yet supported by Xcode. One of our near-term goals for the Package Manager is to move to a library-based architecture to allow for IDE integration; you can read about this goal at https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/master/Documentation/PackageManagerCommunityProposal.md#library-based-architecture. We are planning to add great support for the Package Manager to Xcode. As Xcode is not part of the open source release, we don't plan to pre-announce a timeline or specific details of that Xcode support until we're ready to provide a beta version of Xcode that has it. We understand that this support is very important to our developer community.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> 	- Rick
>> 
> 
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