[swift-corelibs-dev] Building Foundation with SwiftPM

2017-01-30 Thread Robert F Dickerson via swift-corelibs-dev
This has probably been discussed in the past, but wanted to revisit the idea of using native Swift tools to build Foundation. I brought this up in the Slack group, and it seemed to be warmly received- although probably still not simple because of some cyclical dependency issues in the build proce

[swift-corelibs-dev] Building Foundation on Linux with incremental builds?

2017-01-30 Thread Robert F Dickerson via swift-corelibs-dev
Does anyone know how to compile Foundation (with Ninja) on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 with Incremental builds enabled? It currently takes over 4 min on my 8 core, 16 GB machine because it rebuilds the project from the beginning each time. Any way to make the development to test cycle faster would be appr

[swift-corelibs-dev] Migrate corelibs-foundation to the newest APIs

2016-04-12 Thread Robert F Dickerson via swift-corelibs-dev
As you know, currently, as of the 03-24 DEVELOPMENT snapshot, the function signatures for Foundation has diverged. This has caused us to create platform specific calls to the NSString, NSDate, NSCache, etc. classes. For instance,