[swift-users] "swift package describe" performs fetch

[Toni Suter]

Hi Ankit,

Ok, thanks. I filed a bug: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4554 <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4554>

Best regards
Toni

> Am 10.04.2017 um 17:38 schrieb Ankit Aggarwal <ankit_aggarwal at apple.com>:
> 
> Hi Toni,
> 
> This looks like a bug, can you file a JIRA at bugs.swift.org <http://bugs.swift.org/>?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Toni Suter via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to obtain detailed information about a package and all its dependencies in an automated fashion. At first I thought that the
> two commands "swift package describe" and "swift package show-dependencies" are a perfect fit for that. More concretely,
> I wanted to perform the following commands:
> 
> 1. Execute the command "swift package fetch" to make sure that all dependencies are downloaded
> 
> 2. Execute the command "swift package show-dependencies --format json" to obtain a description of
> each package (i.e., name, path, etc.) as well as the dependency relationship between the packages.
> 
> 3. For each package, do the following to obtain information about the modules in that package:
> 	cd path-of-package
> 	swift package describe --type json
> 
> However, if a package has dependencies, the command "swift package describe --type json" will perform another fetch.
> I am not sure why this is necessary since the output of that command only contains information about the individual modules of
> the package. Unfortunately, this means that the same dependencies are downloaded multiple times if a package's dependencies have
> themselves further dependencies, which makes the process above quite slow. Is this a bug or is there another way to retrieve the same information?
> 
> Thanks and best regards
> Toni
> 
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