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@cmcgee1024 cmcgee1024 commented May 7, 2025

Instead of hand-crafting the helper functions, options, and structs for each command,
describe the command structure using an argument parser compatible JSON format
for each command. Introduce a generator plugin that generates all of the Swift types in
a manner that is similar to the way that they were hand-written before.

There are certain limitations in the JSON schema for the Swift argument parser that
prevent the generator from knowing certain important details. For example, there is
no information on which arguments contain file paths, which is important information
for type safety in this context. For this information, and more potentially in the future
introduce a "-ext.json" file with an extension schema to hold the extra information.

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@cmcgee1024 cmcgee1024 marked this pull request as ready for review May 23, 2025 02:05
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@cmcgee1024 cmcgee1024 merged commit 5508505 into swiftlang:main May 25, 2025
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