Xcode plugin

[neonichu]

This should really be a plugin, not a separate tool :).

If you need/want help with that, just ping me.

[marklarr]

Plugin wold be awesome. The idea initially started off as having it be a one-time use, but it seems to be evolving into more than that.

[neonichu]

Ideally, it should permanently keep stuff organized, but I am thinking a good enough first implementation would be running synx every time a project is opened?

[marklarr]

permanently keeping things organized would be incredibly cool. We could watch the pbxproj file for changes and then call synx on it whenever that happens? This could actually just be built into synx, like a -w --watch` flag, so that people can use it with or without the plugin

[neonichu]

I am assuming that would go horribly wrong, because Xcode doesn't expect things to just move while it is potentially working with those files. Inside a plugin, we can probably ensure that other work is delayed for the short amount of time the move process takes.

But like I said, starting point should IMHO be running once on open, before Xcode takes any actions - maybe even that will break already :)

[marklarr]

yea, I was just thinking that same thing. Xcode gets buggy when you modify the pbxproj while it's open in general, and you have to restart Xcode. I've noticed it while testing synx a lot

[marklarr]

I think your idea about doing it before Xcode takes any actions is a cool idea

[marklarr]

Been thinking about this more. What would be absolutely cool would be a plugin that would help Xcode recover if a pbxproj was changed out from underneath it. I don't know what sort of work this would require, but that would pave the way for this.

[neonichu]

hah, I doubt that's really possible :)

[marklarr]

:(

[neonichu]

We have it now :)

https://github.com/neonichu/synx-plugin

Further discussion should happen over there.

[marklarr]

This is super cool @neonichu 🍻