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0 pointsm0zg7y ago0 comments

Yeah, going through two screenfuls of text every time I want to upgrade is not "straightforward".

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Sorry, I just didn't want to give people the impression that it's more difficult than other languages. To upgrade you'd just have to remove the original install directory and untar the new release.

I'm not familiar with Snap, but I did find https://snapcraft.io/swift

Also, upgrading will be less common than Rust since almost everyone uses the latest release/toolchain. There's not really a reason to use the daily builds unless you're contributing to the Swift project.

m0zgOP7y ago

For comparison, for Go, it's "sudo snap refresh go". For Rust it's "rustup update stable". I mean, how hard would it be to properly package this stuff, and why should tens of thousands of users deal with all this manual downloading and unpacking? Assuming, of course, that Swift folks don't deliberately want to make the language unpolular, like Haskell.

WoodenChair7y ago

I agree they should put the effort into having an easy "apt-get" solution. On the other hand, your original question was whether there is a standard way of installing Swift on Ubuntu. The answer is a very clear YES: download the latest tarball of the binaries from the Download page and unzip.

Redoubts7y ago

I’m kinda annoyed there’s no PPA for this, but I suspect they won’t bother shipping this in the standard repo until there’s a stable ABI

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