Location of natalie.swift

[jai]

Is there a particular reason that natalie.swift is placed outside PROJECT_DIR and the example project actually uses the natalie.swift located at /usr/local/bin as opposed to the included natalie.swift? If it's not on purpose let me know and I'll refactor

[krzyzanowskim]

Thank you for raise this topic. In fact my goal is to make "installer" for Natalie, called like this:

once install Natalie

$ brew install natalie

then install natalie for the project

$ cd ProjectDir
$ natalie.swift install

from now on natalie.swift is copied to the project resources and build phase is added to the project.

This is how I would love to have it.

[ldiqual]

@krzyzanowskim I really like the homebrew approach. What I think would be even neater though is to have natalie as a pod dependency so when people check out your app code and run pod install, all the required dependencies will be fetched. As for the Run Script Phase, an option would be to add it manually (using the Pods/natalie/natalie.swift file), or to let the cocoapods modify the app project when natalie is fetched.
Having to install natalie separately (even with homebrew) is an issue to me.

[phimage]

I see Natalie more like an external tool, like genstring, swiftlint... Your project is not really dependent on it
I create a symbolic link between my local project clone and /usr/local/bin (and use the xcode plugin)

Cocoapod is better to import framework?
you can have a private repo https://guides.cocoapods.org/making/private-cocoapods.html to do it with your own podspec if this mandatory for you

https://github.com/realm/SwiftLint use homebrew, but this is a compiled command line application

[krzyzanowskim]

It's all seems feasible, pod installation for CocoaPods seems feasible and should be done in Podspec I think.