[swift-users] Swift 3.0 Preview 1 Linux release and Foundation

[Jan Neumüller]

> On 14.06.2016, at 11:46, Marcin Krzyzanowski via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for a great job on Swift 3 preview 1 release.
> Today I noticed that Linux release and macOS release is quite different.
> I thought that Linux and macOS release will have Foundation in it, but
> Linux seems missing this part.
> Maybe I'm missing something but structures like "Data" (NSData
> equivalent)) are missing on Linux (Ubuntu 14).
> 
> I'm very interested in cross-platform code compatibility, and I had
> this assumption that we can rely on stdlib and Foundation in Swift 3
> releases.
> 
> Swift 3.0 Release Process document
> https://swift.org/blog/swift-3-0-release-process/ mention that "For
> Linux, Swift 3 will also be the first release to contain the Swift
> Core Libraries."
> 
> What I'm missing?
> 

It’s easy - This release isn’t finished. It’s not even beta, it is only a developer preview. I guess the completeness will get better with all following previews.

cu, Jan