Support for PodBuilder

[fabb]

Enhancement Suggestion

PodBuilder is a tool that supports precompilation of frameworks in projects that use Cocoapods. Would it be possible for Rome to support caching PodBuilder generated frameworks?

[tmspzz]

@fabb if PodBuilder generates something similar to a Cartfile.resolved(Podfile.restore maybe?) then I guess it should be possible to support it.

This is not on my roadmap but it someone wants to pick this up I'll be glad to discuss an implementation strategy.

[fabb]

Sorry for not responding for so long, the PodBuilder project is kind of a low priority project for us and does not get the love it deserves.

In the mean time, PodBuilder added version files for each installed framework which should make the integration easier. Now it creates a PodBuilder.plist file inside each .framework folder that contains the pod version (or commit hash), and even the swift compiler version.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I think the rough steps to make Rome support PodBuilder would be these:

• Add and parse a configuration option to Romefile which tells Rome that it needs to deal with a PodBuilder project
• Parse and analyze the Podfile.restore file to find out which frameworks would need to be generated (I guess this would be the most work)
• Parse the PodBuilder.plist files and use them instead of Carthage version files
• Use the PodBuilder folder structure instead of the one of Carthage/Build
• Since CocoaPods/Rome and therefore PodBuilder only seems to support one platform at a time, ignore TargetPlatform, or set it to some placeholder

Did I overlook something?

[tmspzz]

@fabb Seems about right. I can't commit the time necessary to make this happen right now. Do you want to take a shot at it?

I suggest to start by parsing the Podfile.restore

[fabb]

Oh I don‘t expect you to do it, it‘s probably a feature only I would use anyways.

I will keep this on my list, but I probably can‘t complete it soon. Would be nice to do something real in Haskell though, not just assingments.