Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:37:11 +0530 From: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swift under freebsd? Message-ID: <b387bff3aff00cef28cf009400a72fa6@kathe.in> In-Reply-To: <20150611093306.GA44454@ozzmosis.com> References: <0e0e0498667962e412d607e2f27274d0@kathe.in> <20150609113827.GA80013@ozzmosis.com> <20150611093306.GA44454@ozzmosis.com>
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On 2015-06-11 15:03, andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue 2015-06-09 21:38:27 UTC+1000, andrew clarke (mail@ozzmosis.com) > wrote: > >> > hi, in case someone missed it, there's been an announcement that apple's >> > swift will be open sourced soon. >> > they are going pretty much full-out, even the libraries are going to get >> > open sourced along with the compiler. >> > in that case, would freebsd import support for swift within the base >> > system in the near future? >> >> I think it would only end up in the FreeBSD base system if a >> particular program in base required it. However the general trend over >> the years has been to remove dependencies from base (Perl, Ruby) >> rather than add more. >> >> ObjC support is in base more by coincidence, because clang is required >> to build the base system in FreeBSD 10.0 and newer, and clang includes >> ObjC support. clang will never build Swift apps, though. > > Actually on further investigation, while Clang might support the ObjC > syntax, none of the ObjC libraries are available in FreeBSD base. yes, i know. had played with objective-c under freebsd a while back, and getting things to work was difficult as the packages would somehow keep breaking. ~mayuresh
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