> On May 6, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com> wrote:
>
> The conclusion was that after weighing all of the tradeoffs, it made the most
> sense to encourage porting of SourceKit to Linux and then using it to build
> out
> the Linux test discovery feature. This was most in line with a desirable
> long-term direction without being blocked on language design.
For whatever it's worth, this direction is a win on my side as well.
In addition to the problem of test discovery (for which I'm using an
out-of-tree parser), I have a lot of other problems entirely outside of testing
that rely on source-level queries similar to the XCTest problem. This is
things like parsing comments for documentation, implementing
dispatch-by-string, etc. I currently rely on SK in many cases, but lack of
support on Linux is a major issue. Lack of features exposed in the SK APIs is
another issue.
IMO it is a clear win to invest in resolving these problems inside SK. Right
now it is basically a glorified Xcode daemon, but I think it can have a bright
future as a multi-client tool if we're willing to invest in making that happen.
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