<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi swift packagers,</div><div><br></div><div>I am proposing access control to package targets. </div><div><br></div>Link: <a href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/blob/swiftpm-module-access-control/proposals/xxxx-swiftpm-target-access-control.md">https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/blob/swiftpm-module-access-control/proposals/xxxx-swiftpm-target-access-control.md</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Feedback appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-size:2.25em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.2;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';margin-top:0px!important">SwiftPM Target Access Control</h1><ul style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><li style="">Proposal: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/xxxx-swiftpm-target-access-control.md" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none">SE-XXXX</a></li><li style="">Author: <a href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none">Ankit Aggarwal</a></li><li style="">Status: <span style="">In Discussion</span></li><li style="">Review manager: TBD</li></ul><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-introduction" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#introduction" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Introduction</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">This proposal aims to address two issues:</p><ol style="padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><li style=""><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Control over the targets exposed (and built) when a SwiftPM package is used as a dependency.</p></li><li style=""><p style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px">Import (and build) selected targets of a dependency.</p></li></ol><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-motivation" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#motivation" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Motivation</h2><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-1-control-over-exposed-targets" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#1-control-over-exposed-targets" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>1. Control over exposed targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">SwiftPM allows multiple targets (or modules) inside a package. Packages usually contain sample usage or example targets which are useful during development or testing of the package but are redundant when the package is used as a dependency. This increases compile time for the user of the package.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">As a concrete example: Vapor has a target called <a href="https://github.com/qutheory/vapor/tree/master/Sources/Development" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Development</code></a>.</p><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-2-import-selected-targets" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#2-import-selected-targets" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>2. Import selected targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Sometimes user of a package is only interested in few targets of a dependency instead of all the targets. Currently there is no way to state this in <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Package.swift</code> and all the targets are implicitly built and exposed to the user package.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">For e.g.: I would like to use the targets <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">libc</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">POSIX</code>, <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Basic</code> of SwiftPM but don't want other targets to be built or exposed in my package.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-proposed-solution" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#proposed-solution" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Proposed Solution</h2><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-1-control-over-exposed-targets-1" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#1-control-over-exposed-targets-1" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>1. Control over exposed targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">I propose that package authors be able mark the targets they don't want to be exposed as <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">private</code> i.e. the <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">private</code>targets will be built when that package is root package but not when the package is used as a dependency.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">To mark a target as <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">private</code> I propose <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">PackageDescription</code>'s <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Target</code> gains a <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">isPrivate</code> boolean property which defaults to <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">false</code>.</p><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-2-import-selected-targets-1" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#2-import-selected-targets-1" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>2. Import selected targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">I propose that package user be able to specify the targets they want to import into their package.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">To specify the targets to be import I propose to add an optional string array property <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">targets</code> in <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">PackageDescription</code>'s <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Package.Dependency</code> which defaults to <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">nil</code> i.e. all targets.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Instead of an optional string array property an enum can also be used:</p><div class="" style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">enum</span> ImportedTargets {
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">case</span> allTargets <span class="" style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// Import all the targets, default value.</span>
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">case</span> targets([<span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">String</span>]) <span class="" style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// Import only these targets.</span>
}</pre></div><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-detailed-design" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#detailed-design" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Detailed Design</h2><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-1-control-over-exposed-targets-2" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#1-control-over-exposed-targets-2" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>1. Control over exposed targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Consider a package with following structure: </p><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit;word-wrap:normal">├── Package.swift
└── Sources
├── FooLibrary
│ └── Foo.swift
└── SampleCLI
└── main.swift
</code></pre><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">The manifest with <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">private</code> target could look like:</p><div class="" style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">import</span> <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">PackageDescription</span>
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> package <span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> Package(
name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>,
targets: [
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>),
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>SampleCLI<span class="" style="">"</span></span>, isPrivate: <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">true</span>),
])</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">When this package is used as a dependency only <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">FooLibrary</code> is built and is importable.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Targets can have other targets as dependency inside a package. A <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">private</code> target should only be a dependency to other private targets. For e.g. A manifest like this should result in a build failure.</p><div class="" style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">import</span> <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">PackageDescription</span>
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> package <span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> Package(
name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>,
targets: [
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooCore<span class="" style="">"</span></span>, isPrivate: <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">true</span>),
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>, dependencies: [<span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooCore<span class="" style="">"</span></span>]), <span class="" style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// Error FooCore is private.</span>
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>SampleCLI<span class="" style="">"</span></span>, dependencies: [<span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooCore<span class="" style="">"</span></span>], isPrivate: <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">true</span>), <span class="" style="color:rgb(150,152,150)">// Not an error because SampleCLI is private.</span>
])</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Error: <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">FooCore</code> is a private target, it cannot be a dependency to the public target <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">FooLibrary</code>.</p><h4 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.4;font-size:1.25em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-2-import-selected-targets-2" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#2-import-selected-targets-2" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1.2"></a>2. Import selected targets:</h4><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Consider a dependency with following manifest file:</p><div class="" style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">import</span> <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">PackageDescription</span>
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> package <span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> Package(
name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>,
targets: [
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>Foo<span class="" style="">"</span></span>),
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>Bar<span class="" style="">"</span></span>, dependencies: [<span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>Foo<span class="" style="">"</span></span>]),
Target(name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>Baz<span class="" style="">"</span></span>),
])</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">To get only the <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">Bar</code> target from the above package, following manifest could be written:</p><div class="" style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px"><pre style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px"><span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">import</span> <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">PackageDescription</span>
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">let</span> package <span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">=</span> Package(
name: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>FooUser<span class="" style="">"</span></span>,
dependencies: [
<span class="" style="color:rgb(167,29,93)">.</span>Package(
url: <span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>../FooLibrary<span class="" style="">"</span></span>,
majorVersion: <span class="" style="color:rgb(0,134,179)">1</span>,
targets: [<span class="" style="color:rgb(24,54,145)"><span class="" style="">"</span>Bar<span class="" style="">"</span></span>])
])</pre></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Note: In this case since Bar depends on Foo, Foo will be also be implicitly built and be available.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">Any target mentioned in <code style="font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:14px;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">targets</code> and not present in the package should result in build failure.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-impact-on-existing-code" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#impact-on-existing-code" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Impact on Existing Code</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px">There will be no impact on existing code as these features are additive.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.225;font-size:1.75em;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol'"><a id="user-content-alternatives-considered" class="" href="https://github.com/aciidb0mb3r/swift-evolution/tree/swiftpm-module-access-control#alternatives-considered" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(64,120,192);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;padding-right:2px;line-height:1"></a>Alternatives Considered</h2><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-size:16px;margin-bottom:0px!important">None at this time.</p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ankit<br><br></div>
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