[ktoso]

This is a specific approach intended to remove the need to split the swift-java repository into more repositories.

The intended goal is to allow libraries to depend on swift-java WITHOUT having to depend on:

• swift-syntax (which @java... macros depend on)
• any of the swift-java command line tool's dependencies

This design effectively means that a library just using the "no dependencies" pieces of swift-java would depend on it this way:

dependencies: [
    .package(
        ... swift-java ...
         // Disable all the dependencies SwiftJava Tool,
         // and macros are pulling otherwise
        traits: []
    ),
],

By "not enabling" the default traits, such library will NOT built swift-syntax and any of the other dependencies.

If another dependency, e.g. an application, also used SwiftJava and DID use the macros, these traits would become enabled -- as the developer intended -- however that is not a problem for the "middle" libraries, such as Skip which would not have to enable any of these traits nor care about the dependencies.

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In addition to that, all dependencies of swift-java WILL promise to support Android shortly, as soon as we figure out some organizational things about them.

[ktoso]

We're not doing this for the time being and will spin up a new repo