Cocoapods: Podspec - source as required section in file

[twprzybysz]

I cannot find when section source in cocoapods became required. I'm using https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/objective-c/examples/RemoteTestClient/RemoteTest.podspec, and it works well with 0.39. On 1.0.0.beta.2:

Updating local specs repositories
Analyzing dependencies
Fetching podspec for `BoringSSL` from `../..`
Fetching podspec for `Protobuf` from `../../../../third_party/protobuf`
[!] The `Protobuf` pod failed to validate due to 1 error:
    - ERROR | attributes: Missing required attribute `source`.

Is there any workaround or method to work with local src?

[segiddins]

Just put a bogus source in there if you never intend to push it to a spec repo.

[twprzybysz]

That will work, but what about support local files? I haven't found when was the change of podspec file format.

[orta]

It will ignore the source directive when using it locally like you are

[twprzybysz]

Cocoapods documentation is misleading then because It describes 1.0.0.beta.2, not stable version (0.39).

[orta]

Where?

[twprzybysz]

https://guides.cocoapods.org/syntax/podspec.html#group_root_specification
There are no information about the version - on some works on some not.

[orta]

Yeah the guides references are on 1.0.0 betas, the guides doesn't support versioning I'm afraid.

[twprzybysz]

Are there any plans to support source from dir?

[orta]

I'm not really sure what you mean there?

However :source should never be a path, it's the canonical source representation as an external resource. The Podfile by using :path determines that it should be used locally and overrides the :source directive on the Podspec.

[twprzybysz]

As you said about override :path
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/src/objective-c/examples/Sample/Podfile
Using with this podfile it does not work as you suggest - :source is still required

[segiddins]

What @orta said is 100% spot on.

[orta]

you need to add a source property to this podspec: "Fetching podspec for Protobuf from ../../../../third_party/protobuf."