Drop CocoaPods and Carthage support - #2282
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2.x ships no pod. The Ably pod's last release stays on the 1.x line, which is maintenance-only, so existing pod consumers keep a supported SDK for that window and move to Swift Package Manager to go further. Ably.podspec, the pod-lint Makefile target and Examples/Tests — an example app whose only purpose was to prove `pod install` worked — are removed. check-pod.yaml becomes check-carthage.yaml. Only two of its steps were about pods; the rest builds Ably.framework.zip, which Carthage consumers install and which release notes attach, so the workflow stays and loses the `pod lib lint`. Carthage is untouched: dropping the pod does not decide its fate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
With CocoaPods already gone, Swift Package Manager is the only channel for 2.x. The Carthage Ably.xcframework's last release stays on the 1.x line alongside the pod, so existing consumers keep a supported SDK for that window. Removed: Cartfile and Cartfile.resolved, check-carthage.yaml, the two Scripts/*carthage* helpers, every carthage_* Makefile target, and Examples/AblyCarthage with its step in examples.yaml. `make update` now only updates submodules. docs.yml no longer resolves Carthage dependencies before generating docs. It never needed them: jazzy and the markdown generator parse headers from Source/, and no public header imports msgpack or AblyDeltaCodec. The Carthage entry stays in .gitignore, narrowed to the whole directory: a checkout from the old tooling may still be lying around locally, and it should be neither committed nor linted. Ably.xcodeproj is kept, but it took its dependencies from Carthage/Build and so no longer has a way to resolve them. Nothing in CI builds its schemes; CONTRIBUTING now says as much. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WalkthroughThe project removes CocoaPods and Carthage distribution for 2.x. It deletes related packaging targets, CI workflows, example projects, dependencies, scripts, and documentation. Swift Package Manager becomes the documented distribution method. ChangesDistribution transition
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR is primarily a documentation, tooling, and example-cleanup change that removes CocoaPods/Carthage support and finalizes Swift Package Manager as the distribution channel for 2.x. Two minor and low-cost documentation fixes remain: aligning a leftover workspace-build instruction with the new SwiftPM-only guidance, and correcting a README instruction that could lead app developers to select the wrong SwiftPM product. Neither affects runtime behavior, security, or data integrity, so the change is safe to merge with these follow-ups addressed. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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AblyPubSubDevicefor application targets.
AblyPubSubCoreis reserved for Ably-owned packages. Application targets must useAblyPubSubDeviceto enable device-specific traffic classification.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 24-26: Update the development-flow instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md
to stop directing contributors to build and test through Ably.xcworkspace;
instead, consistently prescribe the supported SwiftPM build and test workflow,
or explicitly document a working workspace workflow if that remains supported.
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Stacked on #2275. Swift Package Manager becomes the only distribution channel for 2.x.
PDR-091b2 names an SPM product for this SDK and nothing else. Each other channel is a separately published artifact with its own release step, its own ownership and its own file list to keep in step with
Package.swift.The
Ablypod's last release and the CarthageAbly.xcframeworkboth stay on the 1.x line, which gets security and critical fixes for its support window.Two consequences worth stating. A 1.x consumer cannot declare the device side, because that declaration lives in
AblyPubSubDevice, which is SPM-only — their traffic keeps Ably's default classification for as long as they stay on 1.x. And ably-flutter has to move to Flutter's Swift Package Manager support: its iOS plugin depends onpod 'Ably', '1.2.53', ships noPackage.swift, and a podspec'ss.dependencycan only resolve against a published pod, so the pod path cannot reach 2.x at all. Its users face a breaking major regardless, so the build-system switch lands inside a migration they are already making. PDR-091b2 wants ably-flutter scheduled early.What goes
Ably.podspec,Cartfile,Cartfile.resolved, thecheck-podworkflow, the twoScripts/*carthage*helpers, thepod_lintand sixcarthage_*Makefile targets, and the two example apps that existed to prove installation worked —Examples/TestsandExamples/AblyCarthage— with their steps inexamples.yaml.make updatenow only updates submodules. Docs corrected wherever the change falsified them: the README install list,CONTRIBUTING.md,CLAUDE.md,Docs/plugins.md.Four things a reviewer will want to check:
docs.ymlno longer resolves Carthage dependencies, and never needed to.jazzy.shparses headers out ofSource/, and no public header importsmsgpackorAblyDeltaCodec..gitignorekeeps aCarthage/entry. Removing it exposed a leftover local checkout, andmake lintthen failed on third-party trailing whitespace underCarthage/Checkouts/Nimble/….Ably.xcodeprojsurvives this PR, dormant. It resolved its dependencies fromCarthage/Build, and nothing in CI builds its schemes. It stays only becauseAbly.xcworkspacereferences it and it hosts the soak test. Remove Ably.xcodeproj and port the soak test to SPM #2283 removes it.CHANGELOG.mdand.github/issue_template.mdstill name both channels, deliberately. They describe released 1.x versions, and that stays true.Verification
swift buildclean,makeparses, and a grep forAbly.podspec,Examples/Tests,check-pod,pod_lint,Cartfileandcarthagereturns nothing outside those two files. CI on this commit: Lint, Check SPM build, Examples Test, Docs Generation, Features and UTS pass. Integration Test and LiveObjects are re-running after being cancelled during the stack rebase.Summary by CodeRabbit
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