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guru/dev-lang/swift-bootstrap/metadata.xml
Itai Ferber af8b48ff36 dev-lang/swift-bootstrap: add 1.1
Introduces the `binary` USE flag (on by default) which allows
bootstrapping from `dev-lang/swift-bin` instead of building from source
using `dev-lang/swift`.

Swift 5.10 is becoming increassingly less desirable as a standalone
Swift version, and more difficult to build over time with newer
toolchain versions. For bootstrapping specifically, using a pre-built
binary is likely an acceptable default.

Signed-off-by: Itai Ferber <itai@itaiferber.net>
2026-06-06 09:10:08 -04:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="person">
<email>itai@itaiferber.net</email>
<name>Itai Ferber</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription>
A virtual package which provides a base version of Swift to bootstrap
">=dev-lang/swift-6*" with. Swift 6 and later require an earlier Swift
compiler to bootstrap with; "dev-lang/swift" can depend on earlier versions
of itself, but to avoid arbitrarily long dependency chains on a first
install of Swift on a new machine, this package vends a base version of
Swift that newer versions can BDEPEND on.
</longdescription>
<use>
<flag name="binary">Bootstrap from binary (dev-lang/swift-bin:5/10) instead of building from source (dev-lang/swift:5/10).</flag>
</use>
<upstream>
<remote-id type="github">swiftlang/swift</remote-id>
</upstream>
<slots>
<slot name="5">
The Swift 5 language, compiler, and tooling, used to bootstrap future versions of Swift.
</slot>
<subslots>
Minor Swift versions.
</subslots>
</slots>
</pkgmetadata>