Objective Sharpie pod init takes forever

[Mikilll94]

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run sharpie pod init ios AFNetworking like in the docs here:
   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/macios/binding/objective-sharpie/examples/cocoapod?context=xamarin/ios
2. The installation hangs on this:

** Setting up CocoaPods master repo ...
   (this may take a while the first time)
Setup completed
** Searching for requested CocoaPods ...

Expected Behavior

The installation should complete.

Actual Behavior

The installation hangs.

Environment

Objective Sharpie version: 3.4.0-c0f0e73
CocoaPods version: 1.9.1
macOS version: 10.15.3

[chamons]

Sharpie pod support is not in the best shape, I'd strongly suggest not using it and doing the sharpie work by hand.

FYI @dalexsoto

[Mikilll94]

@chamons
Seriously? When this is going to be fixed? Manually doing bindings for complex Objective-C libraries is a disaster.

[dalexsoto]

@Mikilll94 I think there is a little misunderstanding here, what @chamons means is not doing the binding work by hand but doing the pod initialization yourself, we are deprecating sharpie pod tool but not sharpie bind unfortunately our cocoapods wrappers are too old and cocoapods has changed a lot and the way the tool is designed needs a lot of refactoring, it has been in our backlog for too long that we decided to invest this time in other areas that improve Xamarin.iOS/Mac experience.

So TL;DR; you can still use objective sharpie to bind any Objective-C headers

[dogiaplinh]

@dalexsoto If sharpie pod was deprecated, what’s methods we could use to binding pod packages?

[chamons]

You would need to come up with your own sharpie command line invocation similar to the documented one here.

Sometimes those require some knowledge of objective-c/the library in question, as you have to get the header path correct.

[alataffective]

I didn't have a problem when running sharpie pod init ios AFNetworking but had the hang problem described when running sharpie pod init macosx CocoaFob.

Regarding https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/macios/binding/objective-sharpie/get-started:

NEW! version 3.0 also introduces a tool for easily binding CocoaPods via the sharpie pod command. If the library you're interested in is available as a CocoaPod, we recommend you start by attempting to bind the CocoaPod with Objective Sharpie (versus attempting to bind against the source directly).

If sharpie pod is being deprecated, is this still the right advice?

[nielscup]

@dalexsoto

we are deprecating sharpie pod tool but not sharpie bind unfortunately our cocoapods wrappers are too old and cocoapods has changed a lot and the way the tool is designed needs a lot of refactoring, it has been in our backlog for too long that we decided to invest this time in other areas that improve Xamarin.iOS/Mac experience.

Is sharpie pod being deprecated or not? Your documentation still recommends using sharpie pod

[LelicKAS]

Hey ... guys ...
I think it would be nice to clean up the documentation ... The documentation recommends a path that leads to a hang ....

[eman1986]

if pod is in fact not the best solution, you guys should update the doc to mention that tool is outdated, the way it's currently presented sounds like a new feature of sharpie and that we should use it.

I do feel the sharpie docs aren't as up to date as the other xamarin tools docs are, I understand you guys are busy but this sort of thing hurts people trying to work with your product and makes them think it's not production-grade work.