Hello swift-dev!

I'm one of the selected GSoC 2017 students under the Haiku Project [0] and I 
intend to add Haiku support to the Swift compiler and its standard libraries. 
[1]  Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets 
personal computing and aims to be a platform that is easy to use and learn for 
both end-users and developers, whilst retaining BeOS ABI compatibility [2]. My 
plan is to only support 64 bit Haiku (x86_64-unknown-haiku) for now, 32 bit 
support is also a possibility but I’m not sure if this will get in the way of 
Swift’s goals? (IIRC there was a 32 bit Linux port that hasn’t been merged 
upstream.)

I have already patched the build-script and some other CMakeFiles for initial 
support in my swift fork, but they are based on the ’swift-3.1-branch' sources 
[3]. As I plan to cleanup these changes and merge them upstream, should I be 
targeting my porting efforts to Swift 4 rather than Swift 3.1.1? My final 
proposal [4] documents the project timeline for executing this porting task.

Thanks,
Joseph Hill
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[0] https://www.haiku-os.org
[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5744000681115648
[2] https://www.haiku-os.org/about
[3] 
https://github.com/return/swift/commit/c8253ab3afa238c16ca9389d169c0659dc10b520.diff
[4] https://www.dropbox.com/s/hp9z4azdem6gume/Final_Proposal.pdf?dl=0
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