[swift-evolution] Availability checking of libraries (weak linking?)

[Slava Pestov]

Extending availability to support library versioning would be a great proposal.

You should also take a look at the library evolution proposal, where this functionality will be required to implement the resilience model: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/LibraryEvolution.rst

Slava

> On Jan 18, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Swizzlr via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Say I have an awesome type, and I provide some extensions that makes it work really well with a few other packages.
> 
> I don't want to force those packages on my users, but if they have them, I want to extend them with my awesome type/function/whatever convenience.
> 
> What can be done in code and package manager to weakly link (not literally, I just mean have that behaviour) my awesome type with all these other libraries?
> 
> This is a prelude to a pitch, if there isn't a decent alternative.
> 
> Tom
> 
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