CocoaPods
| Original author(s) | Eloy Durán |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Ben Asher, Dimitris Koutsogiorgas, Danielle Lancashire, Orta Therox, Paul Beusterien and Samuel Giddins |
| Stable release | 1.12.1
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| Preview release | January 7, 2021[1]
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| Written in | Ruby |
| Platform | macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS |
| Type | Package manager |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | cocoapods |
CocoaPods is an application level dependency manager for Objective-C, Swift and any other languages that run on the Objective-C runtime, such as RubyMotion,[2] that provides a standard format for managing external libraries. It was developed by Eloy Durán and Fabio Pelosin, who continue to manage the project with the help and contributions of many others.[3] They began development in August 2011[4] and made the first public release[5] on September 1, 2011. CocoaPods is strongly inspired by a combination of the Ruby projects RubyGems and Bundler.
CocoaPods focuses on source-based distribution of third party code and automatic integration into Xcode projects.
CocoaPods runs from the command line and is also integrated in JetBrains' AppCode integrated development environment.[6] It installs dependencies (e.g. libraries) for an application by specification of dependencies rather than by manually copying source files.[7] Besides installing from many different sources, a “master” spec repository—containing metadata for many open-source libraries—is maintained as a Git repository and hosted on GitHub.[8] CocoaPods dependency resolution system is powered by Molinillo which is also used by other large projects such as Bundler, RubyGems, and Berkshelf.
Example
[edit]The following Podfile example installs the AFNetworking and CocoaLumberjack libraries:
platform :ios
pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.0.0'
pod 'CocoaLumberjack', '< 1.7'
target 'MyApp'
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Releases · CocoaPods/CocoaPods". github.com. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
- ^ Use CocoaPods Dependencies in RubyMotion Apps Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CocoaPods contributors
- ^ Initial work
- ^ Initial release
- ^ What's New in AppCode 2.5
- ^ Streamlining Cocoa Development With CocoaPods
- ^ The “master” spec repository