Can't add FlatBuffers using SwiftPM [Swift, macOS, master]

[juliand665]

Currently, the Package.swift file (to allow swift users to add FlatBuffers via the Swift Package Manager) is nested inside the swift subfolder of the repo. However, the package manager can't work with this:

Packages are Git repositories, tagged with semantic versions, containing a Package.swift file at their root.

So it looks like Package.swift will need to be moved into the root folder (and the paths in it adjusted).

[juliand665]

Paging @mustiikhalil, the author of #5603

[mustiikhalil]

@juliand665 yes we are aware of that

@mzaks Referring to the swift PR:

@aardappel as far as I can tell in order to make subtree work, we need something like following command:

git subtree push --prefix swift origin swift

To create a new branch swift, which contains only the code from swift folder. This branch can be used for releases of Swift Library and also as a URL for Swift Package Manager. We would need to enhance the build and release pipeline though. But then we could use the same technique for Rust, Dart, etc... And move package.json and pom.xml into subfolders.

That will be following in a different PR since the structure of the project will be changing. So that swift will be in its own branch.
@aardappel should I work on making swift its own subtree?

[juliand665]

Ah, damn. So what's the solution for now? Check out the whole repo and just add the package locally?

[mustiikhalil]

Yes, that will be the current solution.