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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Maxim Veksler 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">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Ayaka Nonaka gave a talk[1] about basic scripting[2] support in Swift. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The gist of the idea is to use <span class="m_-8301894335232168815inbox-pl-c" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(150,152,150);font-family:sfmono-regular,consolas,'liberation mono',menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap">#!</span><span style="color:rgb(150,152,150);font-family:sfmono-regular,consolas,'liberation mono',menlo,courier,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap">/usr/bin/env xcrun swift</span></div><div><br></div><div>Therefor it seems the basic building blocks for allowing a swift file to "execute itself" are always laid out and proved to be applicable. </div><div><br></div><div>What's missing IMHO is a better support for dependencies, the suggested solutions in the talk are using the -F for including frameworks that were built using Carthage or CocoaPods. That's not idle because a script I think should be self contained, meaning that you can "just run it" and it works. </div><div><br></div><div>So, I'm wondering what if it was possible to include the dependencies inside the swift file itself? Probably using the same format as the Package.swift syntax. The the swift binary would "detect" that it's a self contained file, it could make this distinction because <span style="font-family:'anonymous pro';font-size:11px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:rgb(4,51,255)">import</span><span style="font-family:'anonymous pro';font-size:11px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> PackageDescription </span>is defined by the user.</div><div><span style="font-family:'anonymous pro';font-size:11px;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div>Then it would follow a 3 step process:</div><div>1. It should download and build the dependencies</div><div>2. then compile the code inside the file</div><div>3. and then run it. </div><div><br></div><div>Having everything happening behind the scenes, so the "script user" simply calls <font face="monospace">./MyScript.swift</font> or <font face="monospace">swift MyScript.swift</font> and it "just works". </div><div><br></div><div>Wondering what the community thinks.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://realm.io/news/swift-scripting/" target="_blank">https://realm.io/news/<wbr>swift-scripting/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/ayanonagon/talks/tree/master/2015-swiftsummit/2" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>ayanonagon/talks/tree/master/<wbr>2015-swiftsummit/2</a></div></div>
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