Bloated SPM Repository Checkout

[nicorichard]

Issue

• Resolving this dependency with Swift Package Manager takes a long time
• Using this dependency consumes too much Hard Drive space

Context

This repository appears to exist as a mirror to provide a thinner version of the Sendbird UIKit for Swift Package Manager clients.

However, rather than using the framework binary which you make available on the Github release, this library has elected to store and reference a binary framework hosted directly in source control. This leads SPM to download not only the current release, but to checkout all previous releases when resolving the UIKit dependency.

This leads to a much-much larger download than necessary.

Worse yet, this information is not cleared after the installation, it sits in the developer's machine wasting hard drive capacity as well. A developer using the Sendbird UIKit in a modular project might have numerous copies of this repository on their machine. I have ~5GB dedicated to it myself.

Derived Data

1 copy per project using Sendbird

Swift PM Cache

1 copy per machine

Solution

I've created a repository demonstrating how I believe this package should be vendored.

Using this package (in the same way that you would install this one) leads to a much faster download and much less data retention

Derived Data

Swift PM Cache

[adam-oleksiak]

Hi @nicorichard the iOS UIKit was already supposed to implement these suggestions however there was an issue with the deployment which will be fixed soon.

[famous90]

Hi @nicorichard, I'm an engineering manager from the Client Mobile team.

Thank you very much for your suggestion and your interest in our products.
We have reviewed your suggestions and found that we've developed them to this repository before, but due to a problem with the release pipeline, it returned in a way that needed to be optimized as it is now. Even if we apply your suggestion to this repository, it will not be applied since it's already cached, so we decided to optimize the package manager after we created a universal repository. Since we need to add it to the release pipeline, it may take a little bit long time, so please understand it. We are planning to put it so that it can be optimized in this year, so we would appreciate it if you could wait a little bit.

Once again, thank you very much for your interest and suggestion. cc` @adam-oleksiak