[swift-evolution] SwiftPM Xcode Integration
Max Howell
max.howell at apple.com
Fri Feb 19 19:45:09 CST 2016
Yes we hope to make them read only somehow.
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Andrew Bennett <cacoyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 20 February 2016, Max Howell <max.howell at apple.com> wrote:
>> > In that context, I have a few questions:
>> > * Is it intended that the generated Xcode project will be checked-in?
>>
>> It’s up to you, but certainly it will not be required and we will recommend NOT editing the generated project.
>>
>> > * Will the project duplicate information that SwiftPM specifies? file references? configuration?
>>
>> Yes, because it will be generated, consider it a build artefact.
>>
>> > * Will the rebuild clobber project configuration that SwiftPM can't specify? This is probably fine. Maybe Xcode should make configuration read-only in generated projects.
>>
>> Yes… don’t edit the projects! ;)
>
> Thanks, that's what I expected, and is what I was hoping for.
>
> My main point then is that I expect users won't realise their changes will be clobbered. It would be good if Xcode's configuration UI is read-only for these projects. At least for v1, if the engineering cost is sufficiently low.
>
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