Why EarlGrey doesn't use submodule to get fishhook and OCMock?

[Arcank]

Currently, one needs to run (directly or indirectly) the script setup-earlgrey.sh to download them.
Why can't it be achieved via submodules? It would make setup easier.

[tirodkar]

That's a good point. We could actually add submodules and remove those sections entirely from the setup file.

However, one reason we do it is because on building EarlGrey, we download these dependencies if they're not already present. We could however add git submodule update --recursive to the setup step and this would automate this as well.

[Arcank]

Is CocoaPods able to run such command when installing dependencies? That would be awesome from a user point of view to streamline the installation.

[tirodkar]

Since we provide a precompiled framework, our CocoaPods flow doesn't require the dependencies to be present. CocoaPods does provide a post_install hook that you can use to run any commands / scripts.

A footnote- adding a submodule would be trivial, except for OCHamcrest, where we download a zipped up release and then perform some cleanups before integrating it, such as cleaning the iOS-suffix they have (hamcrest/OCHamcrest#74). So at the end of the installation, you will still have to run the setup-earlgrey.sh script, which seems like a duplication of efforts. Since this bug is only for OCMock and fishhook though, that can be done.

[khandpur]

any updates on this?