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iOS pod specs — resolution offline, sources called out

How it works

  • LibWorld mirrors the CocoaPods CDN spec repo byte-for-byte — the shards, the all-pods list, and the individual podspecs.

  • This is the one backend that mirrors RESOLUTION WITHOUT SOURCES, and the distinction matters more here than anywhere else on this site. A podspec does not contain the library; it is a pointer saying where the code lives, and that is somewhere else entirely. So mirroring the spec repo means pod install can work out WHAT to fetch offline, not that it can fetch it.

  • For a pod hosted on GitHub the rest of the gap closes elsewhere: the build runner routes the clone named in a podspec's source through the git mirror, so the code comes from LibWorld too.

Things that have cost real time

Written down because they were paid for once already.

A pod hosted somewhere other than a mirrored git source is the remaining hole, and it is stated rather than papered over: pod install will reach that host directly.