It is better in general, yes.
However, there are details that make having a separate repo desirable. Think
of it more as a place for arm-specific patches to get merged in very quickly
and easily while the official swift PR system is running.
Because arm (32-bit specifically) is such an odd du
We're generally fine with taking patches to support other platforms in
upstream. We don't currently have a way to add externally-managed buildbots to
our CI system, though, so it's hard to know when things break. There's also a
policy decision here: if someone breaks the Swift-on-MIPS port, does
Hi Will
Thanks for your great work on arm support. Wouldn't it be better if ARM support
was added directly to the Apple swift repo.
I'm not sure if it's currently possible and what technical challenges we would
need to solve to achieve it, i just wold like to know if it has been discussed
with
Hi Ron,
As the unofficial maintainer of Swift on Arm, I can say with confidence that
there is no official anything about Swift on Linux/ARM. :)
That said, Swift works and builds fantastically well on the TK1 (which I use as
my primary development platform).
Also, yes, all official Swift platfo
Hi all-
Is there any "official" place to check what the state of Swift on
Linux/ARM is? Specifically, what HW platforms/distro combinations have
working binaries? I've seen blogs about getting it compiled and working
on Raspberry PIs, but they seem to have caveats as well as general
surprise
