[CB-9825] Support third-party package managers like Cocoapods and Nuget

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Assignee: Julia Geist
• Reporter: Shazron Abdullah
• Created: 20/Oct/15 01:06
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:51
• Resolved: 15/Aug/16 23:40

Description

ML discussion:
http://markmail.org/message/5qvg6rwr4nz4q7mc

cordova-discuss proposal (to be brought back to the list when finalized):
https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss/blob/master/proposals/ThirdPartyPackageManagers.md

From Steve Gill in the ML:
At the Cordova F2F, everyone seemed to agree that we should bring CocoaPods
support to plugins as dependencies for iOS.

Cordova-android currently uses Gradle as a way to enable external
dependency resolution for plugins using the framework tag.

A suggestion about using the engine tag to fetch cocoapods-cli (mac) &
NuGet (windows) followed by using the framework tag was discussed.

The minutes[1] show Carlos, Shaz and Raghav as looking into the design.
Someone should write up a proposal on cordova-discuss[2] and create the
issues. Post them in this thread.

This shouldn't take priority over cordova-ios 4 issues.

[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MArKRmnLS052LBbhPxJF57_4ZivghOj8znWo5sTCkbU/edit?usp=sharing
[2] https://github.com/cordova/cordova-discuss

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #234
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #461
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #467
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #481