Support for Accio

[AlexisQapa]

Hi,

I've recently seen my CI being slowed down a lot by dependencies build (using carthage). I've made a couple scripts to cache those but nothing really durable.

There is a nice tool named Accio which use SPM to define dependencies and Carthage for building (which is supposed to be replaced by SPM on the long run).

Would it be a lot of work to integrate it ? I could try to implement it despite not being used to XcodeGen codebase.

[yonaskolb]

Sounds cool. Perhaps you can propose how it might work from a user perspective and then we can evaluate how hard it would be.
This issue is similar #196

[AlexisQapa]

I was thinking about the same kind of integration that the one for Carthage. You specify the dependencies to integrate in XcodeGen thought they are also defined, fetched and built by Accio.
In XcodeGen, what are the biggest difference between a Carthage dependencies and another built framework ?

[yonaskolb]

A carthage dependency is similar to a regular framework one but adds a few things:

• automatic lookup of the actual framework path, including for the correct platform
• automatically adds the carthage copy-frameworks build phase with all the carthage framework paths
• optionally find and link related frameworks with findFrameworks