SE-273 Configuration Conditionals (Again)

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About once/year I (re)discover that I'm shipping some mock data in an app bc I need it in previews. Then I think hey, I should be able to conditionally exclude that in release builds. Then I go look at SE-273 on how to do that. Then I remember that I've posted about this multiple times and that the review thread which specified syntax for the implementation to this day still gets people asking for this feature. :slight_smile:

Is it safe to assume at this point that SPM will not be getting that part of the proposal? If so, it seems a process shortcoming not to clean up the proposal with a statement to that effect. It would certainly still be handy to have.

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Never is a long time. There's a bunch of life enhancing changes I want to start get through over the next few releases. I'll definitely take this one under consideration. I need to understand why it fell off first.

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Sorry for hijacking, but I feel like SE-0226 is a similar candidate. A rather old SPM proposal which was never fully implemented.

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this feedback is much appreciated!

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Also looking forward to this.

Package Traits should support this if you build with swift build but cannot be injected to xcodebuild (yet :folded_hands:t2:).

FWIW I currently use Context.environment to exclude targets from release builds — works with xcodebuild.

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Very interested in this too.

@swhitty can you share how you use environment to exclude targets from release?