Moving podspec to root

[hackingotter]

I think the podspec should be moved to the root as at the moment including JBChartView from a local folder doesn't work correctly.

[terryworona]

Can you pleas elaborate? What do you mean by local folder? Copying it directly to your project? What doesn't work?

[hackingotter]

I didn't copy it into my project, I used the cocopods feature to use a local copy of a pod.
pod "JBChartView", :path => "~/Documents/Pods/JBChartView" is how it should work according to the example on the cocoa pods website! but it doesn't as the podspec is stored I the classes folder.
If I append the path by "/Classes" the pod can be integrated, but cocoapods is not able to add links to the files in the pods project. Further there is an error as the license file is not stored in the classes folder and therefore cannot be found

[terryworona]

The "root" of the project is technically /Classes.

The demo project has no reason to be included, hence the reason the pod file is located where it is.

For your local copy, only include the JBBarChart_, JBLineChart_ and JBChart* .m/.h files + the podspec under /Documents/Pods/JBChartView. In other words, move everything from Pods/JBChartView/Classes down into /JBChartView and remove everything else.

[hackingotter]

This should work, but the local copy actually is cloned from my fork. Moving the files will also affect any further commits and I don't want to have a different file arrangement in my fork than the one in the main repository as this would make pull requests and merging quite complicated.

I understand that classes is the technical root, but I think it's more common to place the podspec in the real root, not in the technical. Other projects like XLForm have a technical root, too, but they have the podspec in the root of their repositories and so far I had no problems with projects like that. And if you download them while pod integration you also only download the necessary files without any examples. The only source files that are downloaded are the ones in the "source_files" directory that can be set in the podspec. In your podspec this is set to "/Classes".
So for me it looks like the folder the podspec is stored in has no influence on the pod itself. In my opinion it only is important when you use local folders as I do.

So as far as I found out the podspec should be placed in the root of the repository to make it work with all features of cocoapods.

[terryworona]

@hackingotter I moved the .podspec to the root of the project. Go ahead and try v2.4.2 (commit: b7927cd) and let me know if it works out for you.

[hackingotter]

Everything works fine now. Thank you.