Swift Script Source/Framework Import

cybertunnel · 2019-08-13T16:46:22.887Z

So this idea is around the idea of Mac Administrators using Swift to provide dialog boxes, and access to native APIs that they currently are using PyObjC for.

The idea is to allow the ability for /usr/bin/swift to import frameworks and/or source files to be included during execution. This would empower someone to build a "Template" that can just be called upon by their script.
An example of this would be:

A framework is built for the company's dialog boxes to display information to the end user.
Admin creates a script which would prompt the user to enter some information
- Admin is able to just call the framework to generate all of the stuff needed and display the dialog box in approved styling
User enters information in the dialog box
Admin then continues with the script to parse user information.

Without being able to import Frameworks or Source files, the actual script file can grow very quickly and could end up causing easy errors to be harder to catch.

Moximillian · 2019-08-14T17:16:31.528Z

Check out https://github.com/mxcl/swift-sh

cybertunnel · 2019-08-14T17:41:16.839Z

That would work for my local machine, but not really an option to brew install it on our whole fleet of 9,000 Macs.

joshw · 2021-08-06T17:20:15.395Z

Quite a resurrection, but I wonder if there are solutions for this now that are built into the swift CLI itself?

Would be great (especially for teaching Swift!) to be able to import 3rd party frameworks into a script with ease.

odmir · 2021-08-06T19:33:36.031Z

If I understand correctly, I believe @stevapple is working on this as part of a GSoC 2021 project:

[Pitch] SwiftPM support for Swift scripts (revision) Pitches

Pitch: SwiftPM support for Swift scripts Proposal: SE-NNNN Authors: Rahul Malik, Ankit Aggarwal, David Hart, YR Chen Review Manager: TBD Status: Awaiting implementation Introduction Swift is a general-purpose language that aims to expand its availability and impact on various domains and platforms. We believe great scripting support and experience is an important part of extending Swift’s usage and improving the impact of Swift as a language. Swift already includes basic support for script…

joshw · 2021-08-06T22:01:34.744Z

Ah, yep that's totally it. Can't wait for it