Create binaries from a given Podfile. about cocoapods-packager

[neonichu]

There is indeed a dynamically generated Podfile, but simply replacing that would make it harder to figure out which Pods are requested as frameworks and which are simply dependencies. For the latter, the headers will not be part of the generated framework and by default, symbol mangling will also be applied.

Currently, it is also not supported to choose anything but the latest version of a Pod for the generated framework.

[mdsb100]

@alloy
+1
I am very excited.
We have already do it.
Using cocoapods-packager to build binary.
podspec like this:

  if ENV['IS_SOURCE'] || ENV["#{s.name}_SOURCE"]
      puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------'
      puts "Notice:#{s.name} is source now"
      puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------'
      s.source_files = 'Pod/Classes/**/*'
  else
      puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------'
      puts "Notice:#{s.name} is binary now"
      puts '-------------------------------------------------------------------'
      s.source_files = 'Pod/Classes/*.h'
      s.public_header_files = 'Pod/Classes/*.h'
      s.ios.vendored_libraries = "Pod/lib/lib#{s.name}.a"
  end

Install:

IS_SOURCE=1 pod install

or

AFNetwork_SOURCE=1 pod install

or
Install binary if the pod library provide.

pod install

The two questions is:

1. It must be in private repo, because there is a json file in github repo and there is a podspec file in private repo.
2. If I am going to change pod between source and binary, I have to clean cache first and remove Pods/ dictionary.

The developer wants a solution to change pod between source and binary.

Be careful using macro.

If someone read Chinese, please check this

@neonichu
When we do 'pod install', the project will rebuild all pods. Even if we only change one pod`s version. Carthage can solve this trouble.
If [email protected] can support this feature, it can solve this trouble too. I am very happy to listen it.

Please reply me.

Thanks!

[segiddins]

I think we can close this since Rome does this?

[neonichu]

@segiddins 👍