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Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by gregoriol » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 11:50 AM UTC

aravindputrevu wrote: post #6

Isnt this a old news? I'm thinking of Swift Package manager for all the stuff new.

From my experience, about 20-30% of the packages are not working with swiftpm, either because they don't have a Package.swift file, or because it is not compatible with up-to-date developer tools. On many projects, I had to fork a few repositories just to add or fix the swiftpm integration... while their Pod integration has always been working well.

Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 11:51 AM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #4

sturza wrote: post #3

End of an era.

Was it a good era?

Probably not, but all modern-day package managers owe a debt to Cocoapods for the things it did right and the things that could have been better.

Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by seanalltogether » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 11:51 AM UTC

Apple has always made it painful to step too far off the path with their tooling and frameworks and cocoapods was not immune to that pain. I'm grateful of what they made and the pressure they put on Apple to make things better, but I was very happy to remove yet another 3rd party dependency from our toolchain the moment we were able to.

Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by weego » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 11:58 AM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #4

sturza wrote: post #3

End of an era.

Was it a good era?

No pods are an absolute misery and at best a concrete example of what not to do. So at least there's that.

Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by wahnfrieden » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 12:06 PM UTC

gregoriol wrote: post #8

This is really sad, because the replacement, Swift Package Manager, is really crap: it lacks some useful features (an "outdated" command, meaningful commandline output, ...), is buggy as hell in xcode (most of the time xcode just crashes when you add/removed a dependency, error messages while getting a repository are not understandable and even often not visible entirely, many repositories have some old Package.swift…

Tuist

Re: CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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Post by mrbombastic » Mon, Sep 01, 2025, 12:10 PM UTC

AJRF wrote: post #10

Doesn't React Native depend on this very heavily for iOS?

It does, in recent react native versions they show a deprecation warning when running “pod install” directly which is probably a signal they are working on moving to other package managers, but not aware of what the plan is.