[Swift-devel] problems with external dependencies

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Also note that the limitation that forced me into this approach was the
> inability to pass a dataset without invoking all the semantics of data
> transport and the attendant cmd line args required. Some way to do that may
> also be worth discussing.

That is what the external type is intended to be - you get the dependency 
processing but you don't get Swift data management.

Semantics of external can be changed to help achieve that goal.

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