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Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift
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SwiftProtobuf.xcodeproj cannot be opened because it is missing its project.pbxproj file. #1676

Closed aleksandranavruzova closed 1 month ago

aleksandranavruzova commented 1 month ago

We are using Carthage as a dependency manager. After running: carthage update --platform ios,tvos --use-xcframeworks we are getting version 1.27.0: *** Checking out swift-protobuf at "1.27.0" The project is not building with this version. The error is the following:

Unable to read project 'SwiftProtobuf.xcodeproj' from folder '/Users/.../Carthage/Checkouts/swift-protobuf'.
    Reason: Project /Users/.../Carthage/Checkouts/swift-protobuf/SwiftProtobuf.xcodeproj cannot be opened because it is missing its project.pbxproj file.

Xcode: Version 15.4 Swift: swift-driver version: 1.90.11.1 Apple Swift version 5.10 (swiftlang-5.10.0.13 clang-1500.3.9.4)

thomasvl commented 1 month ago

Looks like it didn't make it into the release notes, but the Xcode project got retired on main and we never brought it back. So it's only there as an empty folder for folks that have the user data directories/files keeping the empty shell around.

@tbkka should it come back?

@gjcairo @FranzBusch fyi.

tbkka commented 1 month ago

Maintaining multiple build systems is tedious work. swift package generate-xcodeproj was deprecated long ago; without that, we would have to manually update an Xcode project in sync with swift package updates. I'm not fond of the idea. Maybe @Lukasa has a better idea?

I think the more practical approach here is to ask the Carthage people how to handle Swift packages that do not have Xcode projects. I found a thread where some Carthage folks were looking into better integration with SwiftPM, but don't know how far that's progressed.

FranzBusch commented 1 month ago

I agree. I think we should just remove the Xcode project completely. The vast majority of the ecosystem has transitioned over to Swift PM. Other are free to fork this repository and maintain an Xcode project or pod spec in their fork for community use.

thomasvl commented 1 month ago

I think we should just remove the Xcode project completely.

I believe it already is gone, and a quick grep of seems to say there aren't any references.

Should we close this then? Do we want to add anything to the 1.27.0 release notes?