SPMTry

Need to install a CLI tool (SPM package) for a specific project, but don't want to install it globally? Just spmtry it!!!

Example

Running latest Kitura sample from https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-Sample:

Getting Started

spmtry is an SPM package (surprise, surprise). Just clone the repo, build the project using swift build.

It is recommended to add the path to executable to $PATH

How it works

spmtry checkouts the repo, builds the project and runs the executable found in the package.

Understanding folder structure

• ~/.spm/checkouts - All repos will be cloned as sub directories of this root directory
• ~/.spm/bin - Currently, each built executable is placed in subdirectories (name = commit-hash) of this root directory. But this may change in future once --install flag is added