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perhaps more of a question than a proposal evaluation, but i saw in the pitch some discussion regarding the feasibility of using the new migration mode in the compiler to power 3rd party tooling to apply the automated migration changes. however, it's not clear to me how straightforward this would be to do given the current proposal.
from looking through the source a bit, it seems like non-SPM build systems would be able to easily invoke the new migration compiler commands, but the subsequent step of processing serialized diagnostics to extract, filter, and apply any relevant fix-its would perhaps have to be re-implemented separately from the implementation in SPM.
having the ability to apply fix-its in an automated manner seems like it could be a generically useful ability, independent of managing feature migrations. swiftc even has a (seemingly-now-defunct) flag '-fixit-all' that suggests it at one time did something like this.
i'm curious to hear if the authors have any thoughts about the possibility of exposing some of the more generic internal components built for the migration feature to support other use cases (or the same use case in other build environments).
i'm curious to hear if the authors have any thoughts about the possibility of exposing some of the more generic internal components built for the migration feature to support other use cases (or the same use case in other build environments).
The implementation currently lives in SwiftPM but it's not necessary has to be located there (even the command itself), we are looking into moving most of the functionality including SwiftFixIt and package manifest refactorings over to SwiftSyntax, which should make it much simpler to adopt in other tooling.
We have both --targets (plural comma separated) and --to-feature (singular allowing multiple options) in the interface here. Either is fine, but might make sense to have them be consistent (either plural or singular but not both)? So eg.
swift package migrate --target Foo --target Bar --to-feature Baz --to-feature Boop
or
swift package migrate --targets Foo,Bar --to-features Baz,Boop
Could check what we do for other commands, though I suspect we may be a little inconsistent there too
As for the naming swift migrate versus swift package migrate, we'll need to revisit our naming strategy holistically at some point. There are too many sub commands for package making things hard for users to find and discover. I understand that it's easier to add new tools there that than add another top level tool to the toolchain, but that needs to be made easier as well.
Given we have a lot of work to clean things up, I am OK for now with the choice of the authors.
Maybe I'm reading that wrong, but it sounds like the compiler interface emits the fix-its, but doesn't actually perform the migration like swift package migrate does.
