Carthage VS swift-package-manager

Compare Carthage vs swift-package-manager and see what are their differences.

Carthage

A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa (by Carthage)

swift-package-manager

The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language (by apple)
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Carthage swift-package-manager
5 7
14,909 9,596
0.1% 0.3%
5.9 9.7
about 2 months ago 5 days ago
Swift Swift
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Carthage

Posts with mentions or reviews of Carthage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-12.

swift-package-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of swift-package-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
  • Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2024
    According to their changelog[0], Clock was added to the standard library with Swift 5.7, which shipped in 2022, at the same time as iOS 16. It looks like static linking by default was approved[1] but development stalled[2].

    I expect that it's as simple as that: It's supported on iOS 16+ because it's dynamically linked by default, against a system-wide version of the standard library. You can probably try to statically link newer versions on old OS versions, or maybe ship a newer version of the standard library and dynamically link against that, but I have no idea how well those paths are supported.

    0. https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

    1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

    2. https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/3905

  • Cocoapods vs SPM
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 May 2023
    I can't use SPM... https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/issues/4581
  • Swift Package Manager, build configurations and non compiling iOS projects
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Aug 2022
    If we inspect the documentation we can see that there is debug and release BuildConfiguration defined. We can also have a look at source code but there is not much useful information there. So what does debug and release configuration mean and in what circumstances those are applied?
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    Swift Package Manager - The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language. Created and maintained by Apple. Language: Swift.
  • Cocoapods vs SPM?
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 26 Sep 2021
  • Meet PreviewDevice 0.7.0
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Aug 2021
    Swift Package Manager
  • Swift Package Versioning
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 Apr 2021
    SPM docs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Carthage and swift-package-manager you can also consider the following projects:

Xcode Maven - Maven for iOS Builds

CocoaPods

Accio - A dependency manager driven by SwiftPM that works for iOS/tvOS/watchOS/macOS projects.

Rome - Carthage cache for S3, Minio, Ceph, Google Storage, Artifactory and many others

Alcatraz

SWM (Swift Modules) - Swift Modules, a swift module (or package) manager #fuck_xcode #terminal_rocks