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Re:VendorKit – an iOS library management system by jakehow on Monday December 05, 2011 @10:38AM (#3314972)
Interesting, but only seems to go half way. Half the battle is getting library maintainers to package things in a sane manner.

This alternative has been working really well for us so far: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods

It has the added benefit of encouraging good practices in library development as described here: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/04/04/using-open-source-stat...

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Re:VendorKit – an iOS library management system by abijlani on Monday December 05, 2011 @11:04AM (#3315106)
There is already a vendorspec file for libraries with dependencies. I don't see why that can't become the standard for all libraries.
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Re:VendorKit – an iOS library management system by jakehow on Monday December 05, 2011 @11:22AM (#3315180)
Copying files willy nilly without any etiquette around packaging doesn't seem like a good standard to me.
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