Are there any plans to support lifecycle hooks/scripts in swift package manager ?
According to the community proposal: https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/blob/master/Documentation/PackageManagerCommunityProposal.md#support-for-other-build-systems We are considering supporting hooks for the Swift Package Manager to call out to other build systems, and/or to invoke shell scripts. This way, swift package manager will become a build automation tool, similar to npm and maven. npm seems like the most similar tool to swift package manager. It has "scripts" property - https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts: npm supports the "scripts" property of the package.json script, for the following scripts: pre/post install, pre/post test. etc. Using lifecycle scripts can facilitate build automation of swift projects, for example it can enable code generation. LinuxMain.swift and allTests fields can be generated automatically during the build process. Before lifecycle scripts are supported, for build automation swift package manager has to be used with some build automation tool like make, and the build automation information is spread between Package.swift and Makefile files. Best Regards, Vadim Eisenberg
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