in a lot of cases, the majority i would say, dependency management is not very useful at all. stuff like cocoapods, ports etc. all of it are just another pit o

in a lot of cases, the majority i would say, dependency management is not very useful at all. stuff like cocoapods, ports etc. all of it are just another pit of tar to crawl through before you can press a button to build. sure you can bury it all under scripts, but the simplest solution imo is to avoid the problem altogether, set up your dependency, or component, or whatever in such away that you can check it into source control as a submodule, script, actual source files etc. then make sure nobody has to think about it again and that updating it is trivial provided the third party doesn't make breaking changes. not such a useful approach if you want to be building against the latest greatest and need the latest fixes constantly for security etc, but that is the exception rather than the case.