Well I was thinking about making a competitor to SPI because they only support GitHub repo’s. This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…
Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
Swift Package Index joins Apple
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I see the opposite, they have a lot of oss projects nowadays and most of their new, interesting stuff is getting open sourced too, a la Microsoft
Simply being open doesn't make them good open source projects. Luckily the SPI shouldn't need to conform to Apple's release schedule, and should operate mostly independently, so the worst aspects of Apple's open source projects will be less of an issue.
No true Scotsman…
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Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
What does Sherlocked mean?
It means Apple (or big tech) has adopted/cloned your product basically killing your products ability to succeed
In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson
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Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
What does Sherlocked mean?
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#18Well I was thinking about making a competitor to SPI because they only support GitHub repo’s. This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…
Or send in a PR for gitlab/… support?
Merging a PR with Apple is harder than merging into the left side of a six-lane highway during rush hour.
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#19kind of surprised Swift didn't launch with this by default, built in-house
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What does Sherlocked mean?
It means Apple (or big tech) has adopted/cloned your product basically killing your products ability to succeed In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson
This makes it sound like Sherlock was named in response to Watson. It was the other way around.
Earlier versions of Mac OS had an app called ‘Sherlock’[^1] that could search local files and the web in a fairly rigid manner.
‘Watson’[^2] was a third party shareware app very much inspired by Sherlock (and obviously, given the name, not trying to hide that!) that was much more flexible, more ‘OS X-like’, arguably much more user friendly, and was open to plugins (like, there was a movie time search plugin, an eBay plugin, an Amazon plugin etc).
Sherlock 3[^3], in MacOS 10.2, was redesigned with a UI very like that of Watson, and also allowed similar plugins, making Watson obsolete.
In the Apple developer world, “being Sherlocked” came to mean “your app being made obsolete by Apple including identical functionality with the OS”.
1: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/f2d124c36d74f71c6... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
