Successful pod install not generating Podfile.lock

[mokagio]

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What did you do?

Running pod install on this Podfile succeeds, but no Podfile.lock is generated.

install! 'cocoapods',
  integrate_targets: false,
  skip_pods_project_generation: true

platform :ios, '13.0'

pod 'SwiftFormat/CLI', '~> 0.40'

What did you expect to happen?

I was expecting a Podfile.lock to appear, so that I could be sure that the version installed on other checkouts of the repo was the same as my local one.

What happened instead?

There was no Podfile.lock 😢

CocoaPods Environment

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Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.8.4
        Ruby : ruby 2.6.5p114 (2019-10-01 revision 67812) [x86_64-darwin18]
    RubyGems : 3.0.3
        Host : Mac OS X 10.14.6 (18G103)
       Xcode : 11.0 (11A419c)
         Git : git version 2.20.1
Ruby lib dir : /Users/gio/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib
Repositories : cocoapods - git - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Old-Specs @ 6e256ccc84aad851d401fabb79b2c0f9e09bb875
               master - git - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ f0d66623809afc13fe158f95bcab3b94802496b3
               old-specs - git - git@github.com:CocoaPods/Old-Specs.git @ 6e256ccc84aad851d401fabb79b2c0f9e09bb875
               trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/

Installation Source

Executable Path: /Users/gio/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats       : 1.1.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.4.1
cocoapods-try         : 1.1.0

Podfile

install! 'cocoapods',
  integrate_targets: false,
  skip_pods_project_generation: true

platform :ios, '13.0'

pod 'SwiftFormat/CLI', '~> 0.40'

Project that demonstrates the issue

👉 https://github.com/mokagio/podfile-lock-not-generated-example

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Thank you for your help 😄

[mokagio]

Oh ☝️ . Here's the --verbose output

$ bundle exec pod install --verbose
  Preparing

Analyzing dependencies

Resolving dependencies of `Podfile`
  CDN: trunk Relative path: CocoaPods-version.yml exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: all_pods_versions_5_e_d.txt exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.13/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.0/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.1/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.2/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.3/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.4/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.5/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.6/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.7/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.8/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.9/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.10/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.11/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.12/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update
  CDN: trunk Relative path: Specs/5/e/d/SwiftFormat/0.40.13/SwiftFormat.podspec.json exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update

Comparing resolved specification to the sandbox manifest
  A SwiftFormat

Downloading dependencies

-> Installing SwiftFormat (0.40.13)
  > Copying SwiftFormat from `/Users/gio/Library/Caches/CocoaPods/Pods/Release/SwiftFormat/0.40.13-d548b` to `Pods/SwiftFormat`
  - Running pre install hooks

Skipping Pods Project Creation

Skipping User Project Integration
  - Running post install hooks
    - cocoapods-stats from `/Users/gio/.rbenv/versions/2.6.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-stats-1.1.0/lib/cocoapods_plugin.rb`
      CDN: trunk Relative path: CocoaPods-version.yml exists! Returning local because checking is only perfomed in repo update

-> Pod installation complete! There is 1 dependency from the Podfile and 1 total pod installed.

[!] The abstract target Pods is not inherited by a concrete target, so the following dependencies won't make it into any targets in your project:
    - SwiftFormat/CLI (~> 0.40)

[dnkoutso]

This is intentional I think due to integrate_targets being disabled and skip_pods_project_generation being enabled.

[dnkoutso]

I suppose we could change it to generate the lockfile because the projects or integration is not needed for that to happen. What is your use case here?

I suspect some folks might not want the opposite if we change it..........

[dnkoutso]

Talked to the team internally, we all agree that we should generate the Podfile.lock even when those options are off.

Marking it as a thing to do in 1.9.x

[mokagio]

@dnkoutso and team. You 👏 are 👏 amazing 👏 ! ❤️

Happy to help with the devving and/or testing if you need.