Update README to reflect Swift version 6.0.3 and testing library changes #821
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| **`exercism/Swift`** is one of many programming language tracks on [exercism(dot)org][exercism-website]. | |||
| This repo holds all the instructions, tests, code, & support files for Swift _exercises_ currently under development or implemented & available for students. | |||
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| 🌟 Track tooling (_test-runner and Continuous Integration_) runs on Swift `5.8.1`. <br> | |||
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Why are you inserting   in markdown?
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The README appears to be an adaptation of the Python track readme. The   usage comes from there. https://github.com/exercism/python/blob/9b7a74b59eb82a65d926532f4590af3eb6861c30/README.md?plain=1#L39
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| ## Swift Software and Documentation | |||
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| **Copyright © 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.** | |||
| **Copyright © 2025 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.** | |||
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Why is the readme tagged with an Apply copyright?
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The Swift logo is an Apple trademark so it should be cited as such. However, Apple's documentation says to mention "The Swift logo is a trademark of Apple Inc.", so we should include that. The original copyright notice probably was adapted from the PSF copyright notice in the Python track README.
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If the logo is trademarked by Apple, maybe we shouldn't be using it? Does this line indicate it is referring only to the logo and not the entire file and/or repo?
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Legally speaking is the name Swift trademarked as well so not only the logo. Most languages haven't cared about this, if you check most languages on the website which uses the real logo. So does most of them require you to refer to say who owns the logo. However I have a very hard time to see any company doing a dmca takedown anyways.
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I think we can get rid of this line. I'm happy with the line below.
| 🌟 Most exercises are solvable with Swift `6.0.0` or higher. | ||
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| As of 2025 does the track use the new [swift-testing][swift-testing] library for testing. This makes the so you have to use Swift 6.0.0 or higher to run the tests. | ||
| If you wish to still run the tests with the old XCTest framework, you can do so by pulling the `5.x` branch. |
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Students can work locally with the old tests, but can they submit their code to the site? The track would run the Swift 6.0 tests so would that break tests on submission? Some more detail here could be useful.
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Not really. Most earlier solutions will still work. I think around 5-10% of the exercises have changed test cases, and those will not exist on the 5.x changes so those will likely not work.
Co-authored-by: András B Nagy <[email protected]>
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