GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages

Re:GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages by rkachowski on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:01AM (#20094115)

It's pretty interesting that Cocoapods got so much flak years ago for basically exploiting Github's bandwidth to host a package registry for the apple ecosystem, and now Github are doing exactly the same as a first class product.

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Re:GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages by Rockslide on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:40AM (#20094361)

Well part of the (if not THE) reason for that was that they were extremely inefficient in the whole process (complete clones of the master repository including the complete history, although you don't really need that as a cocoapods user).

And it is still inefficient today, considering that an initial pod install takes around 12 minutes just to clone the cocapods repo...

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Re:GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages by jolux on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:18AM (#20094682)

They were actually using shallow clones which were more performance intensive for GitHub’s backend.

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