Any scripts should be subject to the same code review and design policies as the rest of the compiler. A bisection script or build-script seem fine, but a four line script to automate something is probably not the right thing to include.
-Chris > On Oct 17, 2017, at 6:05 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
