BSbsaul·May 11, 2025
i was thinking it would have used the swift build project https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-build recently released but i didn't find any mention of that.
Did i miss something ?
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swift-build
A high-level build system based on llbuild, used by Xcode, Swift Playground, and the Swift Package Manager
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A high-level build system based on llbuild, used by Xcode, Swift Playground, and the Swift Package Manager
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| May 10, 00:00 | 2025-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 10, 03:00 | 2025-05-10 03:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 06:00 | 2025-05-10 06:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 09:00 | 2025-05-10 09:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 12:00 | 2025-05-10 12:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 15:00 | 2025-05-10 15:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 18:00 | 2025-05-10 18:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-10 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10, 21:00 | 2025-05-10 21:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 00:00 | 2025-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 03:00 | 2025-05-11 03:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 06:00 | 2025-05-11 06:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 09:00 | 2025-05-11 09:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 12:00 | 2025-05-11 12:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 15:00 | 2025-05-11 15:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 18:00 | 2025-05-11 18:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-11 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11, 21:00 | 2025-05-11 21:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThe Swift language team has recently open sourced swift-build, and the community's assumption is that it was done in order to eventually move everything away from xcodebuild to swift-build, which would let you build an app from swift packages and fully break from Xcode: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-build
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