[CB-11790] Check that Cocoapods is installed by checking `pod install` return code, show help text

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
• Created: 31/Aug/16 00:42
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:59
• Resolved: 05/Sep/16 06:32

Description

Line: https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/blob/826db773df6b0297a9d0b2e7889b9a028a80fe5f/bin/templates/scripts/cordova/lib/podMod.js#L59

If it is not installed, we must error out and warn the user what to do. Currently, it just silently fails (pod install is called, but its error code is not checked).

We need to decide what to do with the user experience issue if pod install is first run – this triggers a Cocoapods repo clone, which at the time I write this is 475MB. The time to download this repo is non-trivial, and the size of the repo increases linearly each day. We should add a notice to the output that it might take a long time.

Additionally, we could report the size of the Cocoapods repo by using the Github API like this Chrome Extension: https://github.com/harshjv/github-repo-size

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #253