How do I create a CocoaPods podspec that has a dependency that exists outside of Specs?

Question

I have a public fork of a library that already exists in CocoaPods/Specs. In a Podfile, I can reference this forked pod by doing this:

pod \'CoolLibrary\', :         


        

Answer 1

Dependencies are very simple, having only the ability to define the name and the version specifier of an Pod. They cannot be extended with the same extensions as a dependency in the Podfile.