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, 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. They began development in August 2011 and made the first public release 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. It installs dependencies (e.g. libraries) for an application by specification of dependencies rather than by manually copying source files. Besides installing from many different sources, a “master” spec repository—containing metadata for many
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
libraries—is maintained as a
Git repository and hosted on GitHub.
The “master” spec repository
/ref> CocoaPods dependency resolution system is powered by Molinillo which is also used by other large projects such as Bundler, RubyGems, and Berkshelf.
Example
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
* List of build automation software
* List of software package management systems
This is a list of notable software package management systems, categorized first by package format (binary, source code, hybrid) and then by operating system family.
Binary packages
The following package management systems distribute apps in binar ...
References
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External links
Official website
Official source code repositories
Free package management systems