[swift-dev] Dockerized Swift, Build Times and Other Notes Regarding CI

[Max Moiseev]

I personally think it would be of great help to newcomers to have a containerized development environment to quickly start experimenting. Non-newcomers would also benefit from it by being able to test their changes on different versions of Linux, for example.

I would prepare a set of scripts and Dockerfile’s in a separate repo to start with, and at least add a link to it to Swift’s main ‘README’ via a PR to see what the community has to say. Maybe an extra paragraph in 'system requirements’?

On a slightly more technical note, can you elaborate a bit more on why you’d need a docker-compose? If only for volumes to be in a separate container… Maybe I’m missing something.

thanks,
max

> On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:34 PM, swizzlr via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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> Hacking on Swift
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> Just as it’s possible to build Swift in a docker container so too is it possible to actively develop the language in a Linux environment, while still benefitting from any local affordances you may have. If there is interest from the core team, I would be happy to contribute a meta-repo of Swift, submoduleing all the repos and supplying a docker-compose file which would enable developers to provision a development machine while being able to mirror local changes over to the machine. Similarly, “preheated” images could be built which would eliminate the need for a fresh build when first starting on the project.
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