Support for Linux

[scottkawai]

Support for Linux

[JustinM1]

FYI It works if you initialize your own session configuration. I forget the exact syntax but its something like let session = URLSession(configuration: URLSessionConfiguration.default)

[scottkawai]

There's a few return type nuances that differ from OS X and Linux which I've been cleaning up, but there's a bigger road block. This library relies on Foundation's URLSession class to make the HTTP Requests. As of now, the open source version of Foundation (which Linux uses), hasn't fully implemented URLSession, resulting in errors like fatal error: shared is not yet implemented: file Foundation/NSURLSession/NSURLSession.swift. So until Foundation is updated, this library won't work on Linux.

[adrianbrink]

Damn, do you know what the timeline is for Foundation implementing them?

[scottkawai]

Looking over swift.org, there doesn't appear to be a definitive timeline, but they are tracking the status of the project here.

[drewmccormack]

Perhaps related to this, I attempted to push to heroku, but the build failed. NSLocalizedString was not known. I am guessing Linux doesn't support that either.

[scottkawai]

Version 1.0.0 adds experimental support for Linux, however since URLSession still remains incomplete, there's the potential for unexpected behavior. See the notes about Linux in the README.