<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Update: we've created the <b class="">master-before-optional-pointers</b>&nbsp;branch at ff373e9, but run into some complications putting this plan into action. (Specifically, I forgot that SwiftPM depends on XCTest for its test cases, and that XCTest of course depends on Foundation.) I'll send another message tomorrow with any new developments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:23 , Jordan Rose via swift-corelibs-dev &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, swift-corelibs-dev.&nbsp;I'm planning to land the changes for&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0055-optional-unsafe-pointers.md" class="">SE-0055:&nbsp;Making pointer nullability explicit</a>&nbsp;this afternoon in the Swift compiler; however, the corresponding diff for Foundation is fairly large (<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/304" class="">PR #304</a>). Because of this, we've decided to hold off on migrating Foundation to the new model for UnsafePointer, so that it can be reviewed at leisure. This means that for a period of time, <b class="">swift-corelibs-foundation will not build against the 'master' branch of the compiler</b>. Instead, we're going to make a branch today that's passed all the CI checks, and use that for regression-testing (and building) Foundation for now.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mishal, Jacob, or I will send a follow-up email once the compiler branch has been created, and another once CI has been updated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-corelibs-dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-corelibs-dev<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>