Any reason why dependency managers can’t be configured on their own with <KMMBridge>? It seems to co...

# touchlab-tools

[Kirill Zhukov]

Any reason why dependency managers can’t be configured on their own with KMMBridge? It seems to complains that I have to set up artifact manager. I just want to generate Swift packages for all of my KMM modules and integrate into iOS app / other packages without needing to publish KMM modules as artifacts anywhere.

[Kirill Zhukov]

This configuration

kmmbridge {
  spm()
}

Throws

You must apply an artifact manager! Call `artifactManager.set(...)` or a configuration function like `githubRelease()` in your `kmmbridge {}` block.

[Kirill Zhukov]

Adding github managers seems to work though, looks like these could be optional?

kmmbridge {
  spm()
   githubReleaseVersions()
   githubReleaseArtifacts()
}

[Kirill Zhukov]

Created ticket https://github.com/touchlab/KMMBridge/issues/113

[russhwolf]

What do you want that configuration to do? The main thing that KMMBridge does is publish binary artifacts so that the iOS team doesn't need to build Kotlin every time. It doesn't really make sense if you don't put that binary somewhere.

[Kirill Zhukov]

I want to have a task that generates XCFramework + Swift package for a KMM module. I am super new to iOS ecosystem so I might be misunderstanding something here 🙂

[Kirill Zhukov]

So far has been using this plugin for this https://github.com/ge-org/multiplatform-swiftpackage

[Kirill Zhukov]

I don’t want to publish KMM’s Swift packages anywhere by the way, I want to depend on them directly in the iOS app using Swift packages.

[Kirill Zhukov]

I guess the part that interests me is generating Swift.package, since KMP plugin already provides a task for generating XCFramework, if I’m understanding correctly

[russhwolf]

It's late so I'm not going to describe this very well, but you shouldn't think of KMMBridge as a replacement for multiplatform-swiftpackage or things like it. That plugin is built for a flow where you're building Kotlin locally and wrapping it in a Swift Package. KMMBridge is designed for a flow where you're publishing your Kotlin as a versioned library and then consuming it from elsewhere.

If you're not pushing binaries somewhere, you don't really need a plugin to manage your package file because you can write it once and it shouldn't ever need to change.