Prebuilt Frameworks & Tagged Releases

[msanders]

It would be nice if ios-charts had prebuilt frameworks attached to each GitHub release. This would speed up building via Carthage by quite a bit, since it automatically downloads those if they exist instead of building from scratch each time. Right now ios-charts is the lengthiest part of our build process; this would shave off a few minutes and would be much appreciated. Shouldn't be too hard to do manually, but can also be done automatically via Travis's tagged releases. Thanks again for the great library!

[danielgindi]

Actually I'm not sure if it is possible for Swift frameworks, as those frameworks are limited already (cannot be embedded in pre iOS-8).
But I will look into it!

[msanders]

Carthage is only supported for iOS 8 and above, so that shouldn't be an issue. For iOS 7, files can still be dragged in manually (presumably as a submodule). Carthage itself includes a framework written in Swift, so you can see an example of it here.

[msanders]

Also see: Quick & Nimble

[danielgindi]

So, basically all we need is to build the framework binaries, pack them in Charts.framework.zip and attach to a release, and then you and Carthage are happy? :-)

[danielgindi]

Ok so I've tried - but Xcode does not have an option for archiving frameworks the way Carthage wants. It can only build it as part of a greater project, and I really don't intend to go and pick up the binaries manually after compiling for each combination...

[pmairoldi]

Carthage can spit out a zip file for you. Its fairly simple carthage archive I believe. I could look into it sometime. I am mainly using carthage right now.

[pmairoldi]

This can be achieved by running carthage build --no-skip-current && carthage archive Charts

[danielgindi]

Note that I've built the 2.1.4a binaries into the 2.1.4 release, since Carthage does not support letters after version numbers.