What's the purpose of `ios_framework_name` in the ...

# kotlin-native

[Sylvain Patenaude]

What's the purpose of ios_framework_name in the build.gradle file? Can we use that variable to change the name of the generated framework for iOS?

[Kris Wong]

in what build.gradle file?

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Well, for now I have only one build.gradle file. In mid/long term, I will split it in multiple files so it will be cleaner, but I have higher priorities for now.

[Kris Wong]

well, it's your build.gradle file. in theory you should know what the variables are for 😛

[Kris Wong]

it's not part of the Kotlin plugin, at least

[Sylvain Patenaude]

I mean, it's not my variable. I saw it in some samples from the net that were using this block in their build.gradle file and was wondering the purpose.

buildscript {
    ext.ios_framework_name = 'myToto2'
}

It doesn't seem like a custom variable, more of a property of ext. Not sure what ext is either though.

[Kris Wong]

that's just an "extra"

[Kris Wong]

it's basically a normal variable

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Ah I see. So it was custom after all in their samples.

[Kris Wong]

yes. it's not necessary unless you want to rename your framework file

[Kris Wong]

otherwise it uses the project name

[Kris Wong]

it used to be necessary

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Yeah, I'm looking to rename my framework file. But only the root folder, not the underlying files under. For instance, Iet's say that the project name is MySDK. Now I would like to append the version to the .framework, so it would output like this: MySDK-1.0.0.framework.
However, I'd like the rest of this tree hierarchy to remain unchanged. So, for instance, the header file would still look like this:
MySDK-1.0.0.framework/Headers/MySDK.h.
So just using baseName = "$MySDK-${version}" doesn't work since it renames the whole framework (not just the root directory).

[Sylvain Patenaude]

The other approach I could take is to insert a sub-directory just before the framework for the version.
Something like this: .../1.0.0/MySDK.framework. But not sure how to accomplish this either.