Matt MassicotteI haven’t tried yet, but it sounds like Xcode now supports package traits. Feels like a very big deal to me.
I think it could help control transitive dependencies, which is a big part of what makes people hesitant about using packages at all.
Rob Amos (Bok)@mattiem it might finally let me remove some long standing workarounds 🤞
Tikitu@mattiem what do you mean by “transient dependencies”? (And preemptively because I’m *sure* that’s gonna be my next question: how do you see package trait support helping?)
Nick Lockwood@nicklockwood @tikitu ugh yes that’s what I meant.
I believe that traits can be used to conditionalize a package’s dependencies in a way that is under the control of the end consumer.
BenRiceM@BenRiceM I wrote up something short about it. Does this help? https://www.massicotte.org/blog/package-traits-in-xcode/