This project was originally named MapboxGeocoder.swift because it started as a single file named MapboxGeocoder.swift in 2c2a827. (Lore has it that, even before this repository existed, it was a gist by the same name.) Over the years, the “dot swift” extension has been a bit of a mouthful and even occasionally a source of build issues: #59 (comment). Having “.swift” in the name also causes confusion because the library also supports Objective-C. Emphasizing Swift in contrast to Objective-C matters less and less these days in Apple-centric environments like CocoaPods.
As we’re doing with MapboxDirections.swift in mapbox/mapbox-directions-swift#399, I think we should consider renaming the project to “Mapbox Geocoder for Swift”, the repository to mapbox/mapbox-geocoder-swift, and the pod to simply “MapboxGeocoder”. Any developer installing the library using CocoaPods would need to replace MapboxGeocoder.swift with MapboxGeocoder in their Podfile. Otherwise, there’s no immediate impact to developers, since GitHub automatically redirects renamed repositories.
Ideally, this change would take place as part of a v1.0 release that also drops Objective-C compatibility. However, there aren’t active plans for either at the moment, so this issue is just a placeholder for now.
The steps to rename look roughly like this:
/cc @mapbox/ios
This project was originally named MapboxGeocoder.swift because it started as a single file named MapboxGeocoder.swift in 2c2a827. (Lore has it that, even before this repository existed, it was a gist by the same name.) Over the years, the “dot swift” extension has been a bit of a mouthful and even occasionally a source of build issues: #59 (comment). Having “.swift” in the name also causes confusion because the library also supports Objective-C. Emphasizing Swift in contrast to Objective-C matters less and less these days in Apple-centric environments like CocoaPods.
As we’re doing with MapboxDirections.swift in mapbox/mapbox-directions-swift#399, I think we should consider renaming the project to “Mapbox Geocoder for Swift”, the repository to mapbox/mapbox-geocoder-swift, and the pod to simply “MapboxGeocoder”. Any developer installing the library using CocoaPods would need to replace
MapboxGeocoder.swiftwithMapboxGeocoderin their Podfile. Otherwise, there’s no immediate impact to developers, since GitHub automatically redirects renamed repositories.Ideally, this change would take place as part of a v1.0 release that also drops Objective-C compatibility. However, there aren’t active plans for either at the moment, so this issue is just a placeholder for now.
The steps to rename look roughly like this:
/cc @mapbox/ios