Ability to not link Carthage framework?

[sbarow]

In a framework with the following:

dependencies:
	- carthage: Firebase.framework
	  link: false

Firebase would still be linked in Link Binary With Libraries in the Build Phases, is this expected or is there another way to achieve this?

Thanks.

[yonaskolb]

Yeah looks like that link property is not being used for carthage dependencies. What's the use case of adding a carthage dependency but not linking it?

[sbarow]

From firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#911

The Firebase.framework is only needed to provide build time access to the Firebase module and Firebase.h. It is not needed for linking. Thus a workaround is to delete Firebase.framework from the Link Binary With Libraries Build Phase.

Don't think its a very common use case but does solve this issue for now.

[yonaskolb]

Added here #432

[sbarow]

Wow that was quick, thank you.