<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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’?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks,</div><div class="">max</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:34 PM, swizzlr via swift-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Hacking on Swift</b></span></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>