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What is the usage of `podspec` command in Podfile?

There is a command podspec in Podfile (documentation)

Example from the link: 

podspec

podspec :name => 'QuickDialog'

podspec :path => '/Documents/PrettyKit/PrettyKit.podspec'

What is really mean? a example of project structure that use podfile will be really appreciated

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2373

Answers (1)

Andrew James Ramirez
Andrew James Ramirez

Reputation: 524

I know this is old , but I stumble on this question , while learning Cocoapods distribution.

So here is the answer:

As the documentation says. If you define this in your Podfile. All dependencies that you define in your podspec will be installed.

Example: in your .podspec file you have:

spec.dependency "RealmSwift", "~> 0.99.0"
spec.dependency "Starscream", "~> 1.1.3"

Basically, this means your library/framework uses this dependencies.

When you are working on your library, you still need to install this dependencies. So you define them in the Podfile of your library:

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'YourLibrary' do
  # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for YourLibrary
  pod "RealmSwift", "~> 0.99.0"
  pod "Starscream", "~> 1.1.3"

  target 'YourLibraryTest' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

now instead of re-writing all of those dependency that your library needed. You could just use

 # Pods for YourLibrary
  podspec

this will look through your library/frameworks podspec file. And download the dependencies that were defined.

From the documentation of Cocoapods:

It is intended to be used by the project of a library.

Upvotes: 1

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