Provide public access to ConsoleDatasource

[AvdLee]

This opens up some of the APIs to allow fetching entities outside of PulseUI. This is great of building custom UIs or a custom Console.

[kean]

I think I have an idea for how to organize it that could also help me manage the "Pulse for Mac" codebase: move these internal dependencies to a separate module so that they don't "pollute" the PulseUI namespace but are still there if you need them.

[AvdLee]

@kean that makes total sense to me. While it's UI related code, they aren't really User Interface definitions. (In theory, you could use these data fetchers for non-UI work)

[kean]

I made a couple of changes in main to make it easier to contribute. The biggest changes are the removal of the pbxproj file and the CocoaPods support (long overdue), so it's now easy to update the project structure.

I also made an initial attempt to extract these API to a separate module: PulseComponents #280. I don't think it's a sustainable approach. With the amount of internal APIs RocketSim seems to be using, the best option would be to build these new views as part of the PulseUI framework, so that RocketSim could easily benefit from the future updates to PulseUI and the community could benefit from the updates coming from RocketSim.

[AvdLee]

@kean makes total sense! Honestly, for me it would be much better to have this inside PulseUI too! I think it makes more sense for the framework to keep these methods private.

Are you going to continue with PulseComponents or close that journey? I rather wait for that to complete before starting my code migration if that makes sense.

[kean]

Are you going to continue with PulseComponents or close that journey?

It was an experiment to check if it's a viable option, which it is, but I don't think there is value in shipping these public APIs. I also can't commit to supporting these in the future, as I can't say that I'm happy with many of the internal APIs in PulseUI. On the other hand, I'd be more than happy to add more customization options and new high-level views in the API.