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by jacques_chester 3852 days ago
I see that there is already a Heroku buildpack for Swift, based on the package manager[1] and it was ported to Cloud Foundry[2].

Speaking of my own experience in working on Cloud Foundry buildpacks, a feature I'd be keen on having is true "vendoring" of dependencies. Bundler does this correctly with a common corner case -- gems that include C/C++ code. It will keep that source code, as well as ruby. Turns out to be a very important feature when deploying to a disconnected environment.

[1] https://github.com/kylef/heroku-buildpack-swift

[2] https://blog.starkandwayne.com/2015/12/08/apple-swift-buildp...