Using and Updating your own Swift Packages in your Project

SwiftPackages.md

Using Your Own Swift Packages in Your Project

Create a Package

• Create a package using, for example these instructions
• Save and commit, as necessary
• Push to Github (or other remote service)
• Set appropriate access to others
• See instructions below for publishing a release

Add Package to Your Project

• See these instructions

Publish a Release

• Make changes to package code as normal
• Make one or more commits
• When ready for release:
  • commit
  • push to Github (or other remote service) Don't forget to do this!
  • On Github, go to the repo and, in the right-hand column, see Releases.
  • Click on "Create a new release"
  • Create a tag: use the next semver (e.g. 0.1.15) as the tag
  • Give the release a title, generate release notes, and add any other description
  • Check "Set as a pre-release," if appropriate
  • Click on "Publish release"
• Done

Update packages

After a new release is published:

• In Xcode, in the project(s) that use the package, File -> Packages -> Update to latest package version
• If necessary, do a clean build
• Done!