quips (stands for nothing, I just like the word quip) is like a small shim around Swift Package Manager that allows you to import Swift packages in single Swift files.

I wrote this dumpster fire during my downtime as a Microsoft intern (not on company time though.) As it stands, four years later, there isn't a better way to run single Swift files, and I honestly prefer to study algorithms by writing them in Swift. So I decided to unarchive and re-use this.

Swift Package Manger on either macOS or Linux, Ruby 2.0+.

I prefer Swift's syntax, personally. :)

    mkdir -p ~/bin
    curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/donn/quips/master/quips.rb > ~/bin/quips
    chmod 755 ~/bin/quips

Ensure ~/bin is in path. Or don't.

The syntax is as follows:

    @quip ModuleName:"https://example.com/link-to-repository.git":SemanticVersion

As an example. in your Swift source file:

    @quip PlayingCard:"https://github.com/apple/example-package-playingcard.git":3.0.0

To make things even shorter, you can also use a GitHub-specific quip:

    @quipgh PlayingCard:apple/example-package-playingcard:3.0.0

To run a quips-based Swift file, you need to use the "quips" command to call the script:

    quips Example.swift

You can also use quips as a shebang:

    // Swift
    #!/usr/bin/env quips

    # Bash
    ./Example.swift

The Unlicense. Check 'UNLICENSE'.