A package manager that installs prebuilt Swift command line tool packages, or Homebrew for Swift packages.
Installation
Homebrew
brew install swiftbrew/tap/swiftbrew
Mint
mint install swiftbrew/Swiftbrew
Swiftbrew
swift brew install swiftbrew/Swiftbrew
Usage
swift brew install <package-reference>
Package reference can be a shorthand for a GitHub repository
(Carthage/Carthage) or a full git URL
(https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage.git), optionally followed by a tagged
version (@x.y.z). Swiftbrew currently only supports public repositories.
Examples
Install the latest version of Carthage:
swift brew install Carthage/Carthage
or
swift brew install https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage
Homebrew is a popular method of distributing command line
tools on macOS. Some popular Swift command line tools are already distributed
via Homebrew. But there are some limitations:
Distributing via Homebrew requires you to create a formula and then maintain
that formula.
If your package is not popular enough to be accepted into Homebrew's core
formulae, you would have to create and maintain your own tap.
As a package maintainer, a usual release process would be: build the
executable, archive it into a tarball/zipball, upload it to GitHub releases,
bump formula version. This is a cumbersome process.
It can be tricky to install a specific version of a tool with Homebrew.
Mint is a package manager that builds and
installs Swift command line tool packages. Mint is more flexible than Homebrew
as it allows installing a specific version of a package. The downside of Mint
is that it requires you to build all packages from source. This can be very
time-consuming as you start replacing most of your Ruby tools in your iOS
project with Swift packages, since bumping a tool version would require
rebuilding it from all your developers' machines.
Introducing Swiftbrew
Swiftbrew saves Swift packages maintainers and users' time by caching
prebuilt Swift command line tool packages, while flexible enough to let users
install multiple versions of a package. Swiftbrew builds and caches Swift
packages on CDN servers so that they are fast to download from anywhere.
Swiftbrew bottles (prebuilt packages) are hosted on
Bintray, the same service that hosts Homebrew bottles. If
any package is not available as a bottle, it will be built by Swiftbrew build
workers and cached after the first installation request, so that it will
available for everyone later on. Here is what an installation output looks
like:
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