Little question about KMMBridge: Should it be rena...

# touchlab-tools

[Raphael TEYSSANDIER]

Little question about KMMBridge: Should it be renamed to KMPBridge because KMM has been deprecated ?

[John O'Reilly]

Won't be able to pronounce it as Cambridge then 😃

[kpgalligan]

Well, "1.0" is going out tomorrow. I "briefly" renamed it "KXCBridge", because it makes XCFrameworks, and the marketing folks were not excited. Changing names is bad. https://github.com/touchlab/KMMBridge/tree/kpg/kxcbridge.

[kpgalligan]

But, I'm also pushing the "shared source instead" plan. We'll support both. Long story. https://touchlab.co/gitportal-for-kmp-tutorial-repo-ci-setup

[kaeawc]

Why git portal and not git lfs?

[kpgalligan]

How would it work? Like a zip?

[kpgalligan]

I mean, the "full" answer is the next feature of GitPortal, which is in progress, but curious how you'd use lfs?

[kaeawc]

Ah, I misunderstood - I thought you were using this gitportal

[kpgalligan]

Nah. New "git portal"

[kaeawc]

Got it

[kaeawc]

So you get the benefits of submodules without the pain

[kpgalligan]

Yes. Basically. There's more to it, but that's the basic pitch.

[kaeawc]

Whereas if you did git lfs it'd still just be about binaries and no source

[kpgalligan]

Binaries are bad. No debugging or code visibility.

[kaeawc]

But if we're in a monorepo for iOS + Android we can just keep chugging along

[kpgalligan]

Oh, no. There's a whole different thing about that.

[kaeawc]

Does the git portal stuff change anything for publishing to SPM/Cocoapods? I'd assume not

[kpgalligan]

That's the "other part" of GitPortal.

[kaeawc]

💯

[kaeawc]

I really wish I were at kotlinconf 😂 😭

[kpgalligan]

It was fun, but I'm very happy to go home.

[kpgalligan]

@russhwolf gave the obvious answer and plan he had all along. "KMBridge". Same pronunciation, but avoids the "KMM" debacle.