[swift-corelibs-dev] Looking at corelibs-foundation

[Tony Parker]

Hi David,

Much of the implementation is indeed shared (via the CoreFoundation C code, and the stuff it uses like ICU and libdispatch). Some of it is a reimplementation of the same API, but in Swift.

If you write code targeting the Foundation API, then you simply ‘import Foundation’. The idea here is that the implementation abstracts away the platform differences including the implementation itself.

- Tony

> On May 13, 2016, at 3:34 PM, David Hart <david at hartbit.com> wrote:
> 
> After looking into it, I guess it would be available, but under the SwiftFoundation module. Correct? I guess that decision was made so that Swift apps in production built on Foundation don’t break when recompiled under Swift 3? Is it worth converging the names of the module so its the same on all platforms? Isn’t it bad if portable code was doomed to have #if os() for all Foundation imports? If we do rename it, do we rename it to SwiftFoundation on Linux or do we rename it to Foundation on OS X (which would require renaming the Objective-C Foundation to something else and write a migration)?
> 
>> On 14 May 2016, at 00:19, David Hart via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org <mailto:swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 May 2016, at 21:50, Tony Parker <anthony.parker at apple.com <mailto:anthony.parker at apple.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Technically, swift-corelibs-foundation is only part of the distribution on Linux. On Darwin platforms, we use a combination of the overlay (stdlib/public/SDK/Foundation directory in the Swift project) and the Foundation.framework that ships on the OS.
>> 
>> I’m confused about swift-corelibs-foundation only being part of the Linux distribution. Are you saying that when Swift 3.0 ships, import Foundation on OS X and iOS will still import the Objective-C framework? If yes, I’m very surprised, and I think many people will be. One of the goals of swift-corelibs-foundation (README) says:
>> 
>> 	• Provide a level of OS independence, to enhance portability.
>> 
>> How can it be portable if different platforms don’t share the same underlying core libraries?
>> 
>> David.
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