Swift plugin

[skull-squadron]

Describe the Bug

The swift plugin (and it's fork) don't work, are unmaintained, and unusable especially on EL-compatible OSes (CentOS, RHEL, etc.).

Steps to Reproduce

dnf install -y epel-release
crb enable
dnf install -y --allowerasing '@Development Tools' pipx python3-devel which curl coreutils libuuid libxml2 xz unzip xar libdispatch z3 libedit libbsd
pipx install ninja

export ASDF_DIR=$HOME/.asdf
git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git "$ASDF_DIR" --branch v0.14.1 --depth 1
. "$ASDF_DIR/asdf.sh"

asdf plugin add swift
# or the fork: asdf plugin add swift https://github.com/jfilling/asdf-swift
asdf install swift latest # which doesn't work
asdf install swift 5.10 # also doesn't work
swift --help # sanity test should it ever happen to work

Expected Behaviour

Swift installs.

Might as well install the system package swift-lang from EPEL but that would defeat the whole point of ASDF.

Actual Behaviour

Lack of error handling causes Swift to appear "installed" to asdf but it actually isn't.

The install process automatically installs ninja always and without user confirmation, even when it's already present.

Bizarre, unhelpful error messages.

Doesn't check the gpg signatures of artifacts apple provides.

Environment

OS: CentOS 9 Stream (`docker run -it --rm quay.io/centos/centos:stream9`)
Architecture: aarch64

ASDF: Normal install per doc.


#### `asdf info`


OS:
Linux 5f92e6981867 6.10.4-linuxkit #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 08:47:01 UTC 2024 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

SHELL:
GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (aarch64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

BASH VERSION:
5.1.8(1)-release

ASDF VERSION:
v0.14.1-f00f759

ASDF INTERNAL VARIABLES:
ASDF_DEFAULT_TOOL_VERSIONS_FILENAME=.tool-versions
ASDF_DATA_DIR=/root/.asdf
ASDF_DIR=/root/.asdf
ASDF_CONFIG_FILE=/root/.asdfrc

ASDF INSTALLED PLUGINS:

swift                        https://github.com/fcrespo82/asdf-swift.git master 23dbd46
# or:
swift                        https://github.com/jfilling/asdf-swift master cbad3ac