Final update: we decided it was cleaner to just update Foundation now rather than building with a separate branch and having to work out those dependencies, so essentially nothing will change. The pull request has been landed but is still planned to have a full post-commit review at a later date.
Apologies for all the confusion! Jordan > On Apr 11, 2016, at 20:56 , Jordan Rose via swift-corelibs-dev > <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > Update: we've created the master-before-optional-pointers branch at ff373e9, > but run into some complications putting this plan into action. (Specifically, > I forgot that SwiftPM depends on XCTest for its test cases, and that XCTest > of course depends on Foundation.) I'll send another message tomorrow with any > new developments. > > Jordan > > >> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:23 , Jordan Rose via swift-corelibs-dev >> <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi, swift-corelibs-dev. I'm planning to land the changes for SE-0055: Making >> pointer nullability explicit >> <https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0055-optional-unsafe-pointers.md> >> this afternoon in the Swift compiler; however, the corresponding diff for >> Foundation is fairly large (PR #304 >> <https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/304>). Because of >> this, we've decided to hold off on migrating Foundation to the new model for >> UnsafePointer, so that it can be reviewed at leisure. This means that for a >> period of time, swift-corelibs-foundation will not build against the >> 'master' branch of the compiler. Instead, we're going to make a branch today >> that's passed all the CI checks, and use that for regression-testing (and >> building) Foundation for now. >> >> Mishal, Jacob, or I will send a follow-up email once the compiler branch has >> been created, and another once CI has been updated. >> >> Jordan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-corelibs-dev mailing list >> swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev > > _______________________________________________ > swift-corelibs-dev mailing list > swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev
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