Is anyone currently hosting projects in separate r...
# multiplatforma
adiba
07/01/2019, 1:56 PMIs anyone currently hosting projects in separate repositories e.g (iOS project in one repo and Android & shared MPP in a separate repository)?
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Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 1:59 PMI have 3 separate repos
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 1:59 PMtechnically 4, but that's due to a dependency of the MPP project
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adiba
07/01/2019, 2:03 PMHiya so I'm wondering if you're working with many people on this current 4 repo project
adiba
07/01/2019, 2:03 PMand how you handle versioning of your project
adiba
07/01/2019, 2:04 PMI've linked my shared and Android project (repo1) to my iOS one (repo 2)
adiba
07/01/2019, 2:05 PMand i'm trying to find out the best way to make is easier for the other devs when we start making changes in the shared library (script etc). Do you have any ideas around this
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Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:12 PMi've thought quite a bit about this. there are a number of ways it can be accomplished
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:13 PMIMO the easiest is using the cocoapods plugin with a self hosted repo for your podspecs
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:13 PMyou can also add the project as a submodule, and point to the podspec file in the repo root
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:15 PMthe latter takes versioning out of the equation, but git submodules can be a pain sometimes
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:17 PMi ran into a very strange issue w/ cocoapods, due to a cinterop dependency, and ended up having to fallback to embedding a fat framework
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adiba
07/01/2019, 2:18 PMNot really familiar with cocaopods but will discuss this with my iOS devs. I believe they are using carthage atm
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Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:27 PMam not sure if a carthage plugin is on the roadmap
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adiba
07/01/2019, 2:38 PMthanks for the heads up
adiba
07/01/2019, 2:39 PMSo to conclude, each dev on your side has to manually pull the code across all your repositories?
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Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:56 PMno. the artifacts are included in the source repo. there are certain steps the dev can take to pull in the source instead.
Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 2:56 PMbut in this case. there's no reason any dev will need to work with the source.
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adiba
07/01/2019, 3:40 PMUnless they are also making source changes or are your devs strictly platform specific?
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Kris Wong
07/01/2019, 3:50 PMthere's just no reason to modify this particular module
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adiba
07/01/2019, 3:58 PM👍