Closed alexito4 closed 5 years ago
Hi, TemporaryDirectory
was public, but I removed it: cd30e8.
I did this because I didn't consider it within the responsibility boundary of this library. An entire library could be dedicated to temporary directories (and files) and thus would have better API and a more thorough implementation.
A good example of a better implementation is SwiftPM’s Utility library. Not that I think anyone should use that, but it's better for this particular area.
Thanks.
That makes sense thanks 👍
For SwiftPM, you refer to this file? TemporaryFile.swift
we can close this then 😉
Cheers
Yeah that one. You can import it if you depend on the whole of SwiftPM, but that's why I say I wouldn't recommend it since it imports a lot of other stuff, and Apple themselves say you shouldn't depend on libUtility.
Thanks for the report, I consider this an area I may in future make a separate library for, in the mean time feel free to vendor the file!
Hi,
I was checking out swiftsh code and found
Path.mktemp
which is really useful, but when trying to use it I was surprised is not available inPath
. I see that in this library is just used as an helper for the tests but swiftsh uses it for production code ineject
.Would you consider making
TemporaryDirectory
part of the Path API? Or is there any reason why that's a bad idea?Cheers