[swift-build-dev] Namespacing SPM modules (was Re: [swift-dev] Right list?)

[Max Howell]

> Consider the case where Erica has packages SwiftString, HTMLString, PGString, IBMString… These modules all have somewhat different dependencies — so you would not necessarily want to download and build all of them — but they do form a coherent whole under EricaString. Would this proposal allow for names like EricaString.Swift, EricaString.HTML and EricaString.IBM
> 

In the current system a package can contain multiple modules. But a module cannot have submodules.

So you can have EricaSwiftString and EricaHTMLString modules or you could have a module called Erica that contained classes or structs called SwiftString and HTMLString, and thus you would (well, *could*) refer to them as Erica.SwiftString and Erica.HTMLString.

Your suggestion is perhaps similar to clang submodules (which Swift does not support afaik) coupled with a new capability in Package.swift to allow a user to declare that certain modules/submodules in certain packages should not be built.

Both things could be done. Though I don’t think it should be put in this particular namespacing proposal.

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