CocoaPods Improvement

[knight9999]

Overview:

The purpose of this ticket is to improve Cocoapod support by:

• Deprecate the framework usage of type="podspec"

The current framework tag type="podspec" provided basic CocoaPods support in the beginning. Continuing to support this method but expand on the tag to support more features will become messy. Additionally, some configurations are not at an individual pod level.

In this case, the best option is to deprecate this method and implement a new method for handling CocoaPods.

• Improve readability

The new method/structure in plugin.xml will improve the readability.

• Add missing default configurations

The new method/structure in plugin.xml will also provide the ability to give users flexibility with global pod configuration and down to the individual pods.

Goals

• Allow users to configure the pod environment: For example use_framework!
  • https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11893
• Provide support of private pod repositories
  • https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12216

Requirement Proposal

• cocoapods support improvement cordova-discuss#108

[erisu]

Pull Requests

• add method getPodSpecs and add related tests cordova-common#48
• Cocoapods support improvement, using podspec tag in plugin.xml #405

[erisu]

Closing out the ticket as all related PRs had been merged. This should be made available when Cordova 9 has been released.