Long SPM checkout time (big repo size)

[TomaszLizer]

Summary

Adding stripe-terminal-ios to project takes quite a bit of time and is a burden on CI. Currently repo uses 1.15 GiB which is main source of the issue.

Since stripe-terminal-ios is already distributed as xcframework it is quite easy to create lightweight mirror optimised for SPM.
This can be achieved eg by copying Package.swift file and commiting it to separate repo on each release. This can be also automated.
In order to optimise usage of this framework I have prepared such mirror on my account which could be used as example :)
It can be found here: https://github.com/TomaszLizer/stripe-terminal-ios-spm
This mirror uses github CI to periodically check source repo for updates. If found it automatically copies Package.swift and creates release :)

Code to reproduce

N/A

iOS version

Any version

Installation method

Swift Package Manager

SDK version

Any version

Other information

[bric-stripe]

Hi just acknowledging we understand and agree this should be done. We plan to eventually have a mirror similar to what you setup and what we have for the payments SDK @ https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ios-spm 👍 Will update this ticket when we have updates.

[yliu342]

Just want to check is there any update on this issue?

[TomaszLizer]

I believe there is no change so far that I am aware of @yliu342.
We are using my mirror successfully in a project: https://github.com/TomaszLizer/stripe-terminal-ios-spm
There is GitHub Actions cron job there which checks daily for updates and pull those if needed.

Only one downside so far: since there are no real changes happening, after two months GitHub disables cron job and I need to reactivate it manually - added that as recurring event to my calendar 😅