Provide support to bypass the ScriptEngine and just compile with kotlin:ank:compile

[raulraja]

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[nomisRev]

This might be easy with Fluid compiler, it also has support for running kapt from code.

[AlexITC]

We do need this one too, is there any plans for it?

[nomisRev]

Hey @AlexITC,

There are currently not any active plans to work on this. With the recent changes in Dokka with plugins we were hoping to migrate Ank or its functionality to a plugin. Which might change the focus a little bit to focus on project documentation rather than markdown-style evaluation which is also already covered by KotlinX-Knit.

Are you currently using Ank in your project? And what is your use-case for kotlin:ank:compile?

[AlexITC]

We are using ank to type-check kotlin code snippets in our docs, there are some examples that perform network calls which won't work in our CI that builds our docs website, hence, making sure that those examples compile without executing them is ideal.

[raulraja]

@AlexITC Development of Ank has been discontinued in Arrow in favor of Knit in #2634 #2584. Knit covers your use case of just compiling code snippets without executing them. I'll close this issue, but If you still rely on Ank and need help migrating feel free to swing by our slack channel in the Kotlin slack where we can help out on how to migrate to knit.

[AlexITC]

Thanks! I'll check because I don't even remember if we still use Ank.