I'm posting to contributors because I think I'm much more likely to get an answer on compilation details here; I hope that's appropriate.
If a pre-linker were to remove all CompilationResults from the artifact set, modify the contents of string literals within their js code (with valid results), create new StandardCompilationResults with the modified code and new strongNames (but the same serializedSymbolMaps, statementRanges, and permutationIds), and then add them to the outgoing artifact set, would there be any side effects? Would the rest of the build system (including soyc) be disturbed at all? More specifically, I'm generating a Java class with a placeholder string in it, then replacing that string in compilation results via a (pre) Linker. The replacement string isn't known until link time, and it's important that the resulting artifact have a strong name based in part upon the replacement. The promise of Linkers seems to imply this is fine, but I can't find any examples of a linker modifying CompilationResults and emitting them as new CompilationResults. Obviously this process would not work with or would miss CompilationResults which aren't StandardCompilationResults, but that's fine for now. Are there other assumptions/guarantees made when creating CompilationResults that wouldn't be replicated? Thanks!
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