[swift-dev] Starter project: Remove old mirrors

[Austin Zheng]

I'd be interested in working on this, if nobody else minds.

Austin

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-dev <
swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If someone is interested in working on a simple and useful starter
> project, here is one.
>
> We need to remove old mirrors from the standard library and the runtime.
>
> The first step is very simple: all old mirrors in the standard library
> and SDK overlays should be migrated to the new CustomReflectable APIs.
> All mirrors that didn't have tests and are affected by this conversion
> should get tests.
>
> The dump() function needs to be rewritten to use new mirrors.
>
> We need new runtime entry points that make sense for the new mirror
> implementation.  The current entry points (the _reflect() function and
> all its implementation details) directly depend on the old mirrors.
> This step is slightly harder, but not doesn't require extraordinary
> skills.  This part requires writing a proposal, because the runtime
> API is going to be stable.
>
> This project is tracked by https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-88
>
> Dmitri
>
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