Swift to participate in GSoC 2021!

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@migueldeicaza

"Swift Tool" support

I would love to have a way of creating command line tools in Swift installed into the system, or for the user, similar to npm install which can turn the project into a command line tool that is installed into the system. This would make it convenient to distribute Unix commands written in Swift.

This would extend SwiftPM, so I would envision:

$ swift install --global

Very good fit for a summer of code event.

I’ve touched this point in [Pitch] SwiftPM support for Swift scripts (revision), part of which going to be my choice for GSoC project. You can check the “Alternative considered” part for an alternative solution which I think is better.