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GitHub Action to install a version of Swift 🏎

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install-swift's Introduction

Hi there! 👋

I'm a software engineer emphasizing automated testing and writing APIs that are a joy to use, primarily using Swift.

Observability for server-side Swift 🔭

I participated in Google Summer of Code 2020, working on a new set of libraries to trace distributed systems written in Swift.

Since then, I open-sourced related libraries such as slashmo/swift-otel.

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install-swift's Issues

Add support for version-specific development snapshots

We currently support official releases and trunk snapshots. In addition we should support version-specific snapshots, as seen here.

Example URLs for these snapshots:

Fail if specified version doesn't exist

Support other platforms

install-swift only supports running on Ubuntu (18.04 & 20.04). Supporting other runner os's like macOS and Windows would make the action more useful.

Platforms to support

Add build artefact caching

It would be good to be able to cache the build artefacts between builds if possible to speed up building of projects, especially dependencies.

I'm not sure how well this will work as historically SwiftPM and Docker have not played nicely together but worth investigating. Definitely needs to be opt in with a way to clear the cache if things go wrong

Support version wildcards

E.g. latest, latest-trunk, 5.*, etc.

Add option to disable cache

Support Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 is now the default version when using ubuntu-latest on GitHub Actions, so we need to add support for it.

Support Windows

[ci] Verify correct Swift version was actually installed

Our CI currently only runs swift --version but doesn't make sure that the version is actually correct.

Earlier swift installs don't include llvm-cov, while swift docker files do

Generating coverage files from test results is quite important. swift 5.2 install and I guess earlier don't include llvm-cov. It is present in the swift docker file though.

Support CentOS 7/8

Support macOS

Many projects may want to run CI on both Linux & macOS, so install-swift should support installation on macOS as well.

Add `.swiftpm` caching support

Add support for caching the system SwiftPM cache so cloning large dependencies is improved, especially for large repos

Pick dependencies based on Ubuntu version

In install-swift.sh we currently always try to apt-get the dependencies for Ubuntu 20.04, even when the runner is actually on Ubuntu 18.04, which leads to errors like E: Unable to locate package uuid-dev.

By checking the Ubuntu version and picking the right dependencies (based on this list) this could hopefully be avoided.