# Joining CocoaPods & Carthage in the iOS engineer’s tool chest for managing project dependencies

Swift Package Manager (or SPM)—Apple’s new dependency manager, is gaining adoption since it became available for iOS in Swift 5/Xcode 11 last year.

With direct integration with Xcode, it’s hard to imagine that Swift Package Manager won’t eventually become the favored approach to integrate third party (or even in-house) libraries.

Button’s Merchant Library—available via CocoaPods & Carthage—is now available on Swift Package Manager as of version 1.3.1.

You can pull in Button Merchant library with SPM directly in Xcode.

- Go to **File → Swift Packages → Add Package Dependency**.
- Add the GitHub url `https://github.com/button/button-merchant-ios`.
- Specify a version rule of **Up to Next Major** and click **Next**
- Confirm it's linked to your app target and click **Finish**.

If you've moved on from managing your own Xcode project and generate your project with SPM, you can add it as a dependency in your `Package.swift` file:

```undefined
dependencies: [\
  .package(url: "https://github.com/button/button-merchant-ios", .upToNextMajor(from: "1.3.1"))\
]
```

Let us know how it goes!