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		jakehow on Dec 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VendorKit – an iOS library management system Interesting, but only seems to go half way. Half the battle is getting library maintainers to package things in a sane manner. This alternative has been working really well for us so far: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods It has the added benefit of encouraging good practices in library development as described here: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/04/04/using-open-source-stat...

abijlani on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

There is already a vendorspec file for libraries with dependencies. I don't see why that can't become the standard for all libraries.

jakehow on Dec 5, 2011 | [–]

Copying files willy nilly without any etiquette around packaging doesn't seem like a good standard to me.

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