<div dir="ltr">The proposal looks great. This would be easy to use and could be handy someday!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Jason Dusek via swift-build-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-build-dev@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-build-dev@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 at 11:55 Max Howell <<a href="mailto:max.howell@apple.com" target="_blank">max.howell@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">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 <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">EricaString.Swift</code>, <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">EricaString.HTML</code> and <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">EricaString.IBM</code></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>In the current system a package can contain multiple modules. But a module cannot have submodules.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Does that allow us to refer to the names of modules qualified by their package name? It seems weird to not have hierarchical names for packages/modules (though I recognize these are not really the same thing, many languages/systems conflate the package namespace with the module namespace).</div></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Ankit<br><br></div>
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