Carthage: Support for single-file µframeworks?

[vmanot]

There are a lot of open source Swift "µframeworks", i.e. single-file libraries. Carthage could provide support for tracking and mirroring these files from their respective repositories, installation being the usual drag-and-drop.

[tmspzz]

Thanks for opening an issue!

I believe since 0.30.1 support is already there.

It's enough for the "µframeworks" to be package as a "Static Framework" i.e. Mach-O type static lib.

The artifact will be linked statically thus you won't incur in any run time loading penalties.

[ikesyo]

It seems to me that just adding desired repositories to Cartfile and drag files from Carthage/Checkouts to your Xcode project is what you want. Carthage correctly checkouts repositories in which no Xcode projects nor shared schemes exist.

[jdhealy]

@blender, from what I intuit, this report seems to be referring to repositories without Xcode projects (so, not supported by our recent static framework support). (_Edit: @ikesyo commented while I was typing 😄— see that comment too._)

@vmanot, could you confirm and elaborate? (Also, could you clarify “the usual drag-and-drop”?)

[vmanot]

@jdhealy yes, was referring to repositories without Xcode projects; i.e. just a single Swift file. By drag-and-drop I was referring to how frameworks are currently embedded, through the user dragging built frameworks into their project.

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