[swift-dev] Snap swift for simple cross-distro Linux deployment and updates

Hi, I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team working on Ubuntu and Snapcraft [1]. We've created snaps, a platform that enables ISVs to directly control delivery of software updates to users and make their software available to a considerably wider Linux audience via the snap store. We'

[swift-dev] [Swift CI] Build Failure: 1. OSS - Swift (Tools Opt+Assert, Stdlib Opt+DebInfo+Assert, Resilience) - macOS (master) #196

Title: Report [FAILURE] oss-swift_tools-RA_stdlib-RDA_test-macos-resilience [#196] Build URL:https://ci.swift.org/job/oss-swift_tools-RA_stdlib-RDA_test-macos-resilience/196/ Project:oss-swift_tools-RA_stdlib-RDA_test-macos-resilience Date of build:Thu, 11 May 2017 03:54:30 -

[swift-dev] z/OS, Swift, and encodings

I've been part of the team at IBM that has been porting Swift to z/OS. Although we have a working version of the compiler and runtime, we’ve had to implement some horrible hacks to get there and we’re now in the midst of trying to “right our technical wrongs”. If we don’t there is no way our

[swift-dev] Questions about Swift-CI

Hi Mishal, Douglas Gregor suggested in SR-4814 (that was merged as dupe into SR-4669) that I get in contact with you because I’m working on issue SR-4669 Add a Benchmark_Driver --rerun N option and I should make sure that I don’t break the Swift-CI. The

[swift-dev] How is `static` a contextual keyword?

Hello Swift Dev, `class` is a contextual keyword because it can be used to declare an object and declare a class variable. Right? I believe static can only be used inside Classes, Structs, Enums, Protocols and Extensions so how is `static` a _contextual_ keyword? Is there a reason why static