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Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency

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SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'

The Swift Package Index (SPI), a search engine for open source packages for the Swift programming language, is now part of Apple, though it will remain open source.

Dave Verwer, who created SPI over six years ago along with Sven A. Schmidt, said on Mastodon that "I'll be joining Apple to continue working on everything related to Swift packages."

Apple senior product manager Dave Lester said that SPI has become an "essential part of the Swift ecosystem" and referenced the intent to build a comprehensive package registry for Swift. The news follows Apple’s sponsorship of SPI back in March 2023.

SPI is open source on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license and Verwer, Schmidt, and Swift Core Team member Ted Kremenek saidthat it will remain open source and continue to operate as it...

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