Daniel Dunbar is working on a version pinning proposal and it will solve issues like this.
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Tyler Fleming Cloutier via swift-evolution <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m going to shamelessly bump this, because this is a pretty huge pain > point for me, and I think others who are trying to build and test with > Swift 3. > > > > On May 14, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Tyler Fleming Cloutier via swift-evolution < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Has there been any discussion on allowing direct specification of > commits or branches for the Swift Package Manager on the list? Currently it > only supports semantic versioning tags, which makes for a tricky > development process for developers adding Swift 3 support to their packages. > > > > For example, consider a Swift 2.2 library that is tagged with 0.2.0. If > developer wants to support Swift 3, they have to either add Swift 3 support > with #if swift directives which is difficult due to the large number of > source changes in Swift 3 and then tag an maintain the new version in the > normal way, or maintain a separate Swift 3 branch. Maintaining a separate > branch is tricky because in order to use Swift PM you have to tag commits > on the new branch. Would this new branch be tagged 0.3.0? What if there > needs to be a new release under Swift 2.2? It’s also unfortunate because > the developer has no way of letting other developers use the package > without creating a release tag. > > > > This difficultly would me drastically mitigated if Swift PM allowed the > tracking of the latest commit on a branch, or the ability to specify a > particular commit as a version. > > > > Tyler > > _______________________________________________ > > swift-evolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > -- Ankit
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