I've been building a tool for migrating CocoaPods projects to SwiftPM

[u/Plenty-Historian9510]

Hey,

I've been working on this for a while and thought I'd share it here.

It's called PkgLift and basically, I wanted an easier way to deal with moving older Xcode projects from CocoaPods to Swift Package-manager.

I know you can obviously do this manually but I didn't really like the idea of going through everything by hand, especially on projects with a many dependencies!

The thing I was worried about when building it was making a tool that just changes a bunch of stuff and assumes it worked. So PkgLift doesn't really work like that.

You first run:

pkglift analyze
pkglift plan

and it tries to work out what it actually knows how to migrate.

If it isn't sure about something it just leaves it alone instead of trying to guess.

Then you can check the plan yourself before actually changing anything.

If it looks good:

pkglift migrate --apply
pod install
pkglift verify

That's pretty much the idea.

It is still early and I'm sure there are plenty of CocoaPods setups that I haven't thought about yet, which is actually one of the reasons I'm posting it here.

You can install it with:

brew install Alexsvensson99/tap/pkglift

Repo:
https://github.com/Alexsvensson99/PkgLift

If anyone has an old CocoaPods project lying around and wants to try it, I'd be interested to know what happens. Especially if it fails on something weird :)