Why does SwiftPM use GitHub repo name and not Package.swift name?

[taylorswift]

@SDGGiesbrecht

Do you mean that there is a definitive bug? Such as:

• it being impossible to write your manifest without warnings
• it being impossible to write a single manifest that works across the various platforms and IDEs

Or do you just not like what said warning‐free manifest looks like?

the problem is that when using the package, you have to write,

    .executableTarget(
            name: "example",
            dependencies: 
            [
                .product(name: "JSON", package: "ss-json"),
            ]),

but the actual name of the package in the Package.swift is swift-json, and this is what people expect to write in the package: field.

the url of the repository is a hosting detail, and should not affect the strings passed to product(name:package:). while moving the GitHub repository is theoretically possible, it would break all incoming links and confuse users.