Re: [swift-dev] C Macros and Variadic functions

2016-01-06 Thread Thomas Catterall via swift-dev
It seems to me that an interesting tool in the swift toolchain would be one that could generate implementations of methods in circumstances like this, using, for instance, CPP macros as hints for function prototypes. Then again, I might be entirely wrong and I'd be happy to be corrected! Tom S

Re: [swift-dev] Official Docker Image & "Blessing"s of Community Platforms

2016-01-04 Thread Thomas Catterall via swift-dev
> Just a question: how would the constant changing of the Swift compiler > version and language interact with this? It seems odd to have an "official" > version of what is an otherwise unreleased language version/compiler. > > - Daniel > >> On Dec 29, 2015, at

[swift-dev] Official Docker Image & "Blessing"s of Community Platforms

2015-12-29 Thread Thomas Catterall via swift-dev
Hi all, You might want to settle down with a glass of eggnog to read this, it's a long one. Myself and Haris Amin (CC'd), as you may know, have been building a community of users who want to use Swift inside Docker containers (https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift) and maintain an image,

Re: [swift-dev] Dockerized Swift, Build Times and Other Notes Regarding CI

2015-12-18 Thread Thomas Catterall via swift-dev
Hi Max, Thanks for your reply and encouragement! I will do just that. Docker volumes allow you to specify volumes to mount inside the container; where this shines is mounting host directories into the container, so that one can edit files on the host and see the changes reflected immediately in