Gentoo isn't a supported platform for the Swift toolchain and swiftly doesn't yet have support for explicitly marking platforms as experimental. This change would need to make it clear that Gentoo is in this experimental category and that it should be used at one's own risk.

There should be some kind of verification of Gentoo as well, so there would need to be a workflow added for it. This shouldn't be too difficult to add based on an official docker hub label. However, this workflow should be non-voting in case it breaks at some point.

Gentoo isn't a supported platform for the Swift toolchain and swiftly doesn't yet have support for explicitly marking platforms as experimental. This change would need to make it clear that Gentoo is in this experimental category and that it should be used at one's own risk.

There should be some kind of verification of Gentoo as well, so there would need to be a workflow added for it. This shouldn't be too difficult to add based on an official docker hub label. However, this workflow should be non-voting in case it breaks at some point.

gentoo actually does have a package for swift through the guru repository and also I was able to override the installation of swiftly for gentoo using the tool by just spoofing the version to ubuntu.

https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/dev-lang/swift
https://bugs.gentoo.org/567514

gentoo actually does have a package for swift through the guru repository and also I was able to override the installation of swiftly for gentoo using the tool by just spoofing the version to ubuntu.

It's great to hear that more distributions picking up Swift.

The nature of swiftly is to work outside the distro packaging system so that a wide variety of toolchains can be installed and switched easily. It downloads the toolchains from swift.org, not from the distro's own repository. If those toolchains don't support the distro then things can break at random times with random toolchains whereas a distro version is supported and verified independently in their own system.

I think that's why if swiftly were to support Gentoo or other distros not supported by swift.org then they would need to be some kind of a "tier 3" (aka. community supported) level so that end-users are aware that things might not always work well and they shouldn't raise issues here unless they are willing to provide fixes for them. Alternatively, they can seek help on the swift forums.