yonaskolb / yonaskolb/XcodeGen

Automatically importing dependencies of a dependency

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Description

I have a number of projects in my workspace, with Carthage dependencies being imported for each of them. Some projects depend on other projects. At the moment I have to add in the implicit project dependency, and then all of its Carthage dependencies as well, otherwise I get a "couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources" error.

I assume there's no current way to do this? As in, auto-add those Carthage dependencies of the dependency as well, just by adding the project.

My idea was to have a new dependency: xcodegen where you link a target of another xcodegen project file, and xcodegen takes the dependencies (Carthage, implicit frameworks etc) and adds them in.

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how XcodeGen handles Carthage dependencies and implicit project dependencies; done would mean adding a project automatically includes its dependency's transitive dependencies without manual entries.

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Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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