Prebuilt framework not generated for local Pods.

[mdelmaestro]

First of all, this is awesome! Thanks for this plugin!

In the project I'm testing this plugin I've got some Local Pods that, for some reason don't get prebuilt.
What I'm seeing is that Pods like "Alamofire" get built and are in the "_Prebuild" folder but the others are not.

platform :ios, '11.0'
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs'

target 'TestProject' do
  use_frameworks!
  all_binary!
  pod 'LocalPod', path: './LocalPod'
  pod 'Alamofire'
end

Am I doing something wrong or local pods are handled differently?

[leavez]

Yes, they are handled differently. Local pods will not be prebuilt by design.

Local pods are changed frequently and it's not proper to build the whole framework when very one line code changed. It's also hard to check the whether the local pods are changed in the view of cocoapods (for normal pod, checking the podlock file is enough) .

If you want to prebuilt your own libs, moving local pods to separated repos may be a good choices.

[mdelmaestro]

It totally makes sense!

I'm my case I guess it's a misuse of the concept of a Local Pod as the pod will rarely change ( can't use a private pod repo because of the enforced use of SVN as the only allowed VCS )

Thanks for the answer!

[Rag0n]

@mdelmaestro
If you need this feature you can check if local pod was changed by looking at modified timestamp(eg. https://github.com/square/cocoapods-check/blob/master/lib/pod/command/check.rb).

[andreialecu]

I'm interested in using cocoapods-binary with react-native.

The way React Native works is by generating an iOS project with a Podfile which is mainly based on local pods, referenced from somewhere in ../node_modules/react-native/... (the prefix below)

Example:

  pod 'FBLazyVector', :path => "#{prefix}/Libraries/FBLazyVector"
  pod 'FBReactNativeSpec', :path => "#{prefix}/Libraries/FBReactNativeSpec"
  pod 'RCTRequired', :path => "#{prefix}/Libraries/RCTRequired"
  pod 'RCTTypeSafety', :path => "#{prefix}/Libraries/TypeSafety"
  pod 'React', :path => "#{prefix}/"
  pod 'React-Core', :path => "#{prefix}/"
  pod 'React-CoreModules', :path => "#{prefix}/React/CoreModules"
  pod 'React-RCTActionSheet', :path => "#{prefix}/Libraries/ActionSheetIOS"

Building a React Native project takes between 8-16 minutes from scratch just to build the Pods. This obviously is pretty bad on CI, and I was trying to see if there's a way to improve this using cocoapods-binary.

Since these local pods are not meant to be hand modified by user, it should be possible to prebuild them.

Please consider changing this behavior or at least adding some sort of flag to allow prebuilding local pods for this use case.

[Duduzera1997]

@leavez Is there any possibility that we have support this use case with React Native?