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The app generates a playground with the deprecated 'package(name:url:from:)'

'package(name:url:from:)' is deprecated: use package(url:from:) instead

can the app be update to use package(url:from:) to remove this warning.

I used SPI-Playgrounds in order to test a swift package residing on GitHub.

I added some code to build an image from images resource of the package, but the image was not found.

Is this a known problem?

Hello!
I never was able to make a macOS Swift Playground work reliably. There is always a moment when they only execute if they run automatically, with manual runs only showing a never-ending spinner.
Furthermore, contextual interactions are different than what we get when editing a standard swift file in Xcode. I find iOS playgrounds more stable for some reason, but all of this makes Swift Playgrounds an extremely awkward and brittle environment in my opinion.

This is the kind of failure I just had when trying to text swift-async-algorithm. As a workaround, I created a SwiftPM Mac executable that provides almost the same functionality as a playground, but it was needlessly convoluted to set up with Xcode: You have to create a swift package, then change the types to executable, then add @main, and then declare manually the dependency to the package you want to test, as the package and target levels. All of this is straightforward, and if there are maybe command-line arguments to perform the same thing, it is always more cumbersome than having it created automatically.

All of this is not caused by SPI-Playgrounds, which is a very nice tool. I think it would be fantastic if it provided the option to create a mac executable instead of a playground when it's possible (that is when the package supports the .mac platform).
It is also probable that iOS Playgrounds (the .swiftpm ones) can be created otherwise, but this can be realized easily enough with Xcode.
Thanks!