[CocoaPods] Resolve dependencies at parent level #1210
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Issue
Subspecs should not be used as a means to add/remove 3rd party code that CodePush depends upon. It's meant only to add/remove features within a given library itself.
When other projects also rely upon those 3rd party libraries, subspecs break things because they don't allow you to do version resolving and dependency management like CocoaPods does by default.
Changes
Instead of using subspecs that reference some local files in the repo, we let CocoaPods resolve dependencies based upon versions. Otherwise, you end up with very opaque linking errors trying to add/remove subspecs.
I would recommend using the same approach of using dependency resolving for all other installation methods like Carthage and leave manual installation as an "at your own risk" like it's meant to be.
Update Instructions
Updaters will just need to:
$ bundle exec pod update CodePush