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Idea: A tool to generate "Report of connectivity level between modules" #53

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@DmT021

There was a pitch recently on the swift forum about introduction new visibility levels on imports (ex @_implementationOnly imports).
internal and lower levels of imports are useful to reduce number of modules to be rebuild in incremental builds.
But there is no way suggested in the proposal to automate or assist with import visibility lowering.
However it was suggested that the swift index store could be used to get the information about dependencies between entities in different modules. So with the index store it's possible to build a report of connectivity level between modules, which in turn will be a valuable tool to plan work for specifying import visibilities.

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