Resolved Unity integrated source/incremental generators

With the rise of source (and the new incremental) generators, it would be a great addition to make these for our Unity workflows. They do already work in the recent versions, but actually making one is a bit of a pain.

Right now you need to set up a separate project to build the generator in and then transfer that built generator to your project. It's not necessarily hard to do, just a bit annoying to get up and running.

So will there be some way to make source generators like we make packages now, where we just provide the source code and Unity can build and use the generator for us? Like some kind of generator-specific assembly definition.

I feel like this would make it much more accessible to make source generators and we would see an increase in generators in the Unity ecosystem.

 

Sounds awesome! And just for some clarification; would this mean we can share our source generators as normal UPM packages (with "raw source code") and they will just work™?

 

@HaraldNielsen When will this feature be available?