I always dislike wrapper scripts because it means that people are working around undesirable behavior in a tool rather than fixing it. But that doesn't seem to be a practical answer, because people are already using wrapper scripts. (I've lost this argument several times before.)
Jordan > On Oct 17, 2017, at 17:25, Erik Eckstein via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: > > I recently had some discussions about how to share those little tips and > tricks which everyone has to make building, debugging, etc. the swift > compiler easier. > > And actually we already have a central place for this: it’s the docs folder > in the swift repo. Especially the DebuggingTheCompiler.rst document contains > many useful little things which might help debugging the compiler. > > So with this email I want to “announce” this, because I found that many > people didn’t know that. > And also I’d like to encourage everyone to contribute to > DebuggingTheCompiler.rst and other documents. > > Another thing is that many people have implemented their own little helper > scripts for various purposes, which they share by email with others and those > emails get lost, and nobody knows what’s the latest version of a script, etc. > We have many of such scripts already in utils. But utils got already very > convoluted. So I propose to create a sub-folder, e.g. ‘dev-scripts’ to place > such scripts (just for new scripts, I’m not proposing moving existing > scripts). The intention is to keep the bar low to contribute to dev-scripts. > So scripts may be not super-polished and it’s also ok to have multiple > scripts which do similar things. > Some scripts might get attention and turn out to be useful for many people > and thus get improved over time. We can eventually move such scripts out of > dev-scripts into the “production” folder utils. > > Please let me know if you have any comments. > > Thanks, > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
