Ability to run as a script, without adding to the target about acknowlist HOT 10 CLOSED

Yeah, clear, then this is definitely not for my use-case. Thanks a lot of clarifying, and for this great project!

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Hello Richard, and thanks for reaching out.

That’s an intriguing idea. Could you give us a bit more context to understand what you’re trying to do?

“Generating the list” is arguably already done by CocoaPods and SPM. AcknowList simply adds its own model to load and merge the 2, but the list manipulation is really minimal. So I’m not sure what logic you’d like to extract. Of course, any library could be split into smaller components, but we want to keep things easy-to-understand and easy-to-use too.

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What we'd like to do is to get a txt file with the concatenated list of a few specific dependencies used in the target.
For example, I'm installing the following dependencies:
https://github.com/richardtop/CalendarKit
https://github.com/realm/realm-swift

So it should take these two files:
https://github.com/richardtop/CalendarKit/blob/master/LICENSE.md
https://github.com/realm/realm-swift/blob/master/LICENSE

And concatenate them as a part of the build script and then output a single txt file containing all of the content of the selected resources.

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OK but if it’s just to concatenate 2 text files, I’m not sure why you need AcknowList. You can just use a custom build script in Xcode. (Apologies if I’m misunderstanding your reply.)

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Just curious if this package can automatically go thru every dependency and extract the License.MD or similar files and do the concatenation... Or is it simply not built for this specific purpose?

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When you say “go thru every dependency”, are you talking about Swift Packages (SPM) or CocoaPods ?

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SPM in my case.

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OK, so the thing is that SPM doesn’t track licences. You could use the GitHub API to automate fetching the licences based on the package repo URLs (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/licenses/licenses#get-the-license-for-a-repository). But unless you have lots of dependencies, you’d probably be better getting them manually.

Feel free to fork AcknowList and take the parts that could help you, but it seems to me like it’s not quite the right tool for this job.

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Clear, so another problem is that I'm not using GitHub... To me it seems now that the AcknowList is a completely different project, orthogonal to what I'm trying to achieve... ?

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If the packages are not on GitHub, you’ll need another way to find the licenses.

AcknowList’s goal is to display the list of dependencies within an app. With CocoaPods, you always get the licenses. With SPM, you need extra work, otherwise it just opens the repo URL.

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