Carthage/Carthage
Carthage
Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa projects and an automation tool for Xcode builds. It functions as a Git-based framework manager and binary distribution tool used to fetch, build, and manage external libraries.
The project distinguishes itself by supporting the production and distribution of platform-independent binary frameworks and static libraries. It utilizes Git tags and submodules to lock specific versions of external libraries and provides mechanisms to distribute prebuilt binaries via zipped release archives.
The system covers dependency resolution and version locking to ensure environment consistency. It includes capabilities for source-based local compilation, build artifact caching to reduce redundant compilation times, and integration with continuous delivery pipelines for automated binary uploads.
Features
- Dependency Management - Provides a decentralized system for fetching and building external libraries for Cocoa projects.
- Dependency Lock Managers - Generates and maintains lock files to ensure consistent dependency versions across different environments.
- Binary Distribution Tools - Produces and distributes platform-independent binary frameworks to reduce compilation times for end users.
- Xcode Build Automation - Automates the compilation of third-party dependencies into binary form for integration into Xcode projects.
- Dependency Lock Files - Determines exact dependency versions by locking them in a resolution file to ensure environment consistency.
- External Dependency Managers - Downloads and builds external frameworks listed in a configuration file into binary form.
- Dependency Resolution - Resolves and fetches external libraries into a project to ensure consistent versioning.
- Multi-Architecture Bundles - Produces platform-independent frameworks that wrap multiple architecture-specific binaries into a single distributable package.
- Git Submodule Integration - Integrates external libraries as git submodules to allow direct version control of dependency source code.
- Dependency Version Locking - Uses Git tags and submodules to lock specific versions of external libraries and ensure environment consistency.
- iOS Development - Manages external source code and prebuilt binaries specifically for native Apple platform development.
- XCFramework Production - Produces platform-independent binary frameworks that support multiple architectures to simplify integration.
- Local Build Orchestrators - Downloads source code from remote repositories and manages the local compilation of project packages.
- Continuous Integration and Delivery - Automates the compilation and upload of zipped framework binaries via continuous integration pipelines.
- Build Artifact Caching - Provides caching of compiled framework binaries to reduce redundant compilation times during build cycles.
- Automated Dependency Updaters - Upgrades external frameworks to the latest versions based on defined compatibility requirements.
- Upload Automation - Automates the upload of tagged releases to a repository through integration with continuous integration services.
- Build Caches - Stores compiled framework binaries to avoid re-compiling unchanged dependencies during subsequent build cycles.
- Static Compilation Toolchains - Compiles dynamic frameworks as static libraries to reduce application launch times.
- Artifact Uploaders - Automates the build and upload of compiled framework artifacts to external stores.
- Build And Automation - Decentralized dependency manager for integrating third-party frameworks.
- Dependency Management - Distributed dependency manager for Cocoa.
- Dependency Managers - Decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa projects.
- Developer Utilities - Decentralized dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C.
- Package Management - Decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa projects.
