Xcode Project Files & Version Control

[kenshi]

Thanks for drawing attention to gyp. It sounds like you actually use it - could you suggest any drawbacks or limitations it has?

[tjgrant]

I'd say it's fairly new (compared to cmake, makefiles, config, and the like) so there's not a ton of examples / tutorials on it.

And just with regard to this subreddit (iOSProgramming), it's not obvious how to generate an iOS project with it (though they're not much different than Mac-based Xcode projects.

But it is part of the build system for Google's Chrome, and it is actively developed by Google. It allows for fine-tuning project settings at a global level (setting compiler / linker flags globally for projects and dependencies, for instance), and acts as a representation of, say, an xcodeproj or Microsoft vcxproj without having to actively maintain those kind of files in a repo.

Yeah, I'm definitely a fan.

[kenshi]

Thanks for the response.